In celestial mechanics, eccentric anomaly is an angular parameter that defines the position of a body that is moving along an elliptic Kepler orbit. For a point P orbiting in an ellipse, the eccentric anomaly is the angle E in the figure to the right. It is determined by drawing a vertical line from the major axis of the ellipse through the point ...
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(from the article `anomaly`) ...is the angle between lines drawn from the Sun to the perihelion B and to a point (not shown) moving in the orbit at a uniform rate corresponding ... ..., called the true anomaly, locates this point relative to the perihelion with the Sun (or focus ) as the origin, or vertex, of the angle. The ... [2 r...
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