Tuesday, 21 April 2015

classical mechanics - What's the amount of deviation of cellestial orbits from perfect ellipses


It's well known that the planets don't orbit the sun in perfect circles and the characteristics of the elliptical orbits which serve as better approximations to their motion have been calculated fairly accurately.


How accurately do elliptical orbits model their actual paths?




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