The Orbit of the Moon

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In this lab activity, students measure the eccentricity of the moon's orbit.

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Astronomy - Fundamentals = Celestial Mechanics Classical Mechanics - Motion in Two Dimensions	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Laboratory

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 1997 Idaho State University
Keywords:: Newton's Law of Gravitation, orbital dynamics
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created January 6, 2004 by Patricia Monahan
Record Updated:: August 22, 2016 by Lyle Barbato
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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