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| | Math Unites Celestial and Atomic |
 | | These insights have led to new ways to design space missions, as described in the attached article, "Ground Control to Niels Bohr: Exploring Outer Space with Atomic Physics" by Mason Porter and Predrag Cvitanovic, which appears in the October 2005 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. |
 | | The article describes work by, among other scientists, mathematician Jerrold Marsden of the California Institute of Technology, engineer Shane Ross of the University of Southern California, and physicist Turgay Uzer of the Georgia Institute of Technology. |
 | | Imagine a group of celestial bodies---say, the Sun, the Earth, and a spacecraft---moving along paths determined by their mutual gravitational attraction. |
| www.ams.org /ams/press/celestial.html (499 words) |
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