Orbital Motion
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Author(s): A. E. Roy
Publisher: Institute of Physics
ISBN: 0750310154
Format: softback
526pp
Price: £38.00
Review Date: 08 February 2005
Review: ‘Orbital motion’ implies the movement of one body about another. The field of orbital motion studies includes celestial mechanics, astrodynamics, stellar kinematics, stellar dynamics and binary motion. This new edition of the textbook for postgraduate students covers the recent numerical experiments into the orbital evolution of gravitational mass, and the astrodynamics of artificial satellites and interplanetary probes. It reflects the growth in understanding of the stability of the Solar System and its subsystems. A new chapter on the Caledonian symmetric N-body problem has been added.