Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4500.&link_type=abstract
"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4500. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Theoretical Concepts And Tools, Theoretical Concepts
Scientific paper
For a particle moving in a conic orbit, the true anomaly is the angle between the point of closest approach to a focus, the focus, and the position of the particle. In the case of a planet moving around the Sun in an elliptical orbit, its true anomaly at any particular instant is the angle between its perihelion position, the Sun (which lies at one focus of the ellipse), and the position of the p...
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