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From Stargazers to Starships: Orbits in Space
written by David Stern
Available Languages: English, French, Spanish
These pages explore synchronous orbits and "Lagrangian points," those points where an object will orbit the sun with the same period as the earth.  This has applications for solar monitoring spacecraft. The pages include three sections which derive the equilibrium properties of Lagrangian points. The calculations only involve algebra and trig, but are rather lengthy.
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sorbit.htm
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Astronomy
- Fundamentals
= Celestial Mechanics
Classical Mechanics
- Gravity
= Kepler's Laws
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ACE, DMSP, Kepler, Landsat, MAP, Magsat, NGST, SOHO, SPOT, WIND, WMAP, gravity, orbit , satillites
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Metadata instance created May 9, 2004 by David Stern
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April 2, 2011 by Lyle Barbato
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