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	Anomaly - LoveToKnow 1911
		Mean R anomaly is the anomaly which the body would have if it moved from the pericentre around F with a uniform angular motion such that its revolution would be completed in its actual time (see Orbit).
		Eccentric anomaly is defined thus: - Draw the circumscribing circle of the elliptic orbit around the centre C of the orbit.
		In the ancient astronomy the anomaly was taken as the angular distance of the planet from the point of the farthest recession from the earth.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Anomaly (428 words)

	Astronomy Answers: From the Astronomical Dictionary
		Below, several different anomalies are explained for the orbit of the Earth around the Sun (or rather: of the Earth around the barycenter of the Solar System, but that is almost the same thing), but they are also used for orbits of other celestial objects.
		The true anomaly is the angle (as seen from the Sun) between the Earth and the perihelion of the orbit of the Earth.
		Just as for the true anomaly, the mean anomaly is equal to 0 in the perihelion and to 180 degrees in the aphelion, but at other points along the Earth's orbit the true and mean anomalies are not equal to one another.
	www.phys.uu.nl /~strous/cgi-bin/glossary.cgi?l=en&o=anomaly (280 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		True anomaly is Equation (?) (= (- (.
		Solving Equation (?) for (, with the radius equal to the radius of the Earth, yields the true anomaly of the satellite on the surface of the Earth.
		An auxiliary angle, called the eccentric anomaly, E, is used to relate true anomaly to an inscribed circle around the satellite’s elliptical orbit.
	www-personal.engin.umich.edu /~tlrichar/TR2Final3.doc (3958 words)

	anomaly
		The true anomaly is the angle between the periapsis of an orbit and the object’s current orbital position, measured from the body being orbited and in the direction of orbital motion.
		The mean anomaly is 0° at periapsis and 180° at apoapsis, just as for the true anomaly, but at other points along the orbit the values of the mean and true anomalies differ.
		The eccentric anomaly is an angle related to both the true anomaly and the mean anomaly that is encountered when solving Kepler’s equation.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/A/anomaly.html (209 words)

	ICOP: Astronomical Glossary
		Eccentric anomaly: in undisturbed elliptic motion, the angle measured at the center of the ellipse from pericenter to the point on the circumscribing auxiliary circle from which a perpendicular to the major axis would intersect the orbiting body.
		Thus the mean anomaly is the angle from pericenter of a hypothetical body moving with a constant angular speed that is equal to the mean motion.
		True anomaly: the angle, measured at the focus nearest the pericenter of an elliptical orbit, between the pericenter and the radius vector from the focus to the orbiting body; one of the standard orbital elements (see elements, orbital).
	www.icoproject.org /glos.html (6487 words)

	i/kepler
		Optionally return mean anomaly MA, true anomaly TA, and integer number of orbits, each a dimsof(orbit(1,..))-by-dimsof(time) array.
		Mean anomaly is not an angle in real space; it is the quantity proportional to time in Kepler's equation.
		True anomaly is the angle from perihelion to planet.
	www.maumae.net /yorick/doc/html_i/kepler_i.php (757 words)

	True anomaly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the diagram below, true anomaly is the angle z-s-p.
		The relation between T and E, the eccentric anomaly, is:
		The relations between the radius (position vector magnitude) and the anomalies are:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/True_anomaly (165 words)

	Glossary
		The true anomaly f equals the polar angle f in polar coordinates with origin at the center of the motion (e.g.
		The mean anomaly is a related angle which increases in direct proportion to the time elapsed (the true anomaly does not--the motion is faster near the center).
		The eccentric anomaly is an auxiliary angle used in relating true anomaly (which is observed) and mean anomaly (which is calculated).
	www.starjunkie.com /glossary_text.html (8887 words)

	Orbital Description
		Argument of perigee is the angle measured in the direction of satellite motion from the ascending node to perigee.
		True anomaly is the angle measured in the direction of motion from perigee to the satellite's position at some defined epoch time.
		Mean anomaly describes what the satellite's true anomaly would be if it were in a circular orbit.
	www.mindspring.com /~n2wwd/html/body_orbital_description.html (489 words)

	True - Definition of True by Webster's Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.
		Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge.
		true - consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B.
	www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/true (591 words)

	Kepler's equation and the Equation of Centre
		Below is a Visual Basic for Applications routine for returning the eccentric anomaly (e) given the mean anomaly (m), the eccentricity (ecc) and the precision parameter (eps).
		I found the value of the true anomaly produced by each method for each degree of mean anomaly for values of mean anomaly from 0 degrees up to 180 degrees.
		The program evaluated the true anomaly for each degree of mean anomaly between 0 degrees and 360 degrees, repeating the loop 10 times.
	www2.arnes.si /~gljsentvid10/kepler.html (2984 words)

	OEDILF - Word Lookup
		The word anomaly refers to a time-varying angle along an orbit in the direction of the body's motion, so it can be thought of as a growing argument.
		The true anomaly of a body in an elliptical orbit is the angle from periapsis to the body, measured at the focus of the ellipse.
		Related angles, the eccentric anomaly and mean anomaly are useful in orbital mechanics.
	www.oedilf.com /db/Lim.php?Word=anomaly (178 words)

	orbit.h File Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Generate the eccentric anomaly from the mean anomaly and the eccentricity.
		Computes the true anomaly from the eccentric or hyperbolic anomaly.
		Computes the true anomaly from the mean anomaly.
	www.psatellite.com /products/html/sctlib_api/orbit_8h.html (555 words)

	planet orbits
		The mean anomaly gives the planet's angular position for a circular orbit with radius equal to the semi major axis.
		It is the angle (at the Sun) between perihelion of the orbit and the current location of the planet.
		By using the true anomaly, the heliocentric radius, and some of the orbital elements, the formulas below compute the heliocentric coordinates in the plane of the ecliptic.
	home.att.net /~srschmitt/script_planet_orbits.html (1743 words)

	Basics of Space Flight Section I. The Environment of Space
		The direction a spacecraft or other body travels in orbit can be direct, or prograde, in which the spacecraft moves in the same direction as the planet rotates, or retrograde, going in a direction opposite the planet's rotation.
		True anomaly is a term used to describe the locations of various points in an orbit.
		It is the angular distance of a point in an orbit past the point of periapsis, measured in degrees.
	www2.jpl.nasa.gov /basics/bsf5-1.html (1166 words)

	Anomaly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Also an anomaly can be a feature or an usability problem, because the testobject may be correct regarding the specification - but it can be improved.
		The title of the Incubus song "Anna-Molly" is a play on the word "anomaly", which is repeatedly sung in the song's chorus.
		Anomaly is the name of an advertising agency based in New York City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anomaly (523 words)

	NSO: Glossary of Terms
		The true anomaly is the angle between the current position of the object and the perihelion of its orbit, as seen from the Sun (or, rather, the
		The eccentric anomaly is an angle that is related to both the true anomaly and the mean anomaly.
		The mean anomaly at a given time is often used as one of the orbital elements of an orbit.
	www.nso.edu /press/glossary.html (8991 words)

	Moments of the Distance from the Force Center in a Two-Body Kepler Orbit
		Four different methods of averaging are presented: the average over arc length, the average over the central angle about the force center (the "true anomaly"), the average over the central angle about the center of the ellipse (the "eccentric anomaly"), and the average over time.
		The symmetry of the average over true anomaly stated by equation (18) and the connection between the average over time and the average over true anomaly stated in equation (25) combine to reveal a corresponding symmetry present in the average over time.
		The distance between the mean position averaged over true anomaly and the mean position averaged over time is larger than the focal length of the ellipse but approaches the focal length for small eccentricities.
	matcmadison.edu /alehnen/kepler/kepler.htm (5351 words)

	Computing planetary positions
		True Anomaly (v): This is the actual angle between the planet and the perihelion, as seen from the central body (in this case the Sun).
		Eccentric Anomaly (E): This is an auxiliary angle used in Kepler's Equation, when computing the True Anomaly from the Mean Anomaly and the orbital eccentricity.
		This algorithm yields the true anomaly, v, and the heliocentric distance, r, for a nearly-parabolic orbit.
	www.petesqbsite.com /sections/tutorials/tuts/ppcomp.html (5757 words)

	Racist Celestial Mechanics, Lecture 2: Heliocentric State Vectors to Orbital Elements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		is the true anomaly of the object's current position in its orbit.
		The mean anomaly (along with a specified time, called an "epoch") is sometimes used instead of a time of perihelion passage.
		Notice that e is in the interval [0,1) and is therefore the orbit is an ellipse in agreement with the sign of the semimajor axis resulting from the Vis Viva equation.
	www.jabpage.org /posts/trans2.html (1283 words)

	Study of out-of-plane effects
		(b) Single-perturbation reflector model with an anomaly having a peak amplitude of 6 km with respect to the background model depth of 20 km.
		In all cases, the anomaly has been imaged at a greater depth and with a lower magnitude than the true anomaly.
		The difference between the true and recovered reflector depths is shown for the (a) star, (b) triangle, (c) coarse- grid, and (d) fine-grid 3D geometry.
	zephyr.rice.edu /department/faculty/zelt/zz/zz.html (981 words)

	Planet positions using elliptical orbits
		The mean anomaly tells us where the planet would be given mean motion in a circular orbit of radius equal to the semimajor axis.
		For this 'manual' calculation, I shall use an approximation to the true anomaly known as the Equation of Centre.
		Having found the true anomaly and the radius vector of the planet, we can go on to find the position of the planet with respect to the plane of the ecliptic.
	www.stargazing.net /kepler/ellipse.html (3664 words)

	Need Help on twin-planet problem!
		Where Q1 is the true anomaly of Earth and Q2 is the true anomaly of Planet X. This follows from the geometry of the triangle having vertices at Earth, the sun, and the point of intersection between the Earth-Planet X line and the orbit major axis.
		The angular separation, subtended at Earth, between the sun and Planet X is maximized when Earth and Planet X are equidistant from (and on the anti-solar side of) the minor axis of their mutual orbit.
		Accordingly, the mean anomaly interval traveled by Earth from perihelion equals the mean anomaly interval traveled by Planet X from aphelion.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?p=324423 (1523 words)

	Orbits in 2D
		Ellipses can be described in terms of their semi-major axis, a, (basically the longest radius) and their eccentricity (basically how squashed the ellipse is: e=0 is a circle, a fully squashed ellipse looks like a line and has e=1).
		Below find the geometric construction that relates the true anomaly and the eccentric anomaly, the formula relating these two, and the formula relating time and the eccentric anomaly.
		The red parts of the diagram have to do with the geometric construction for the eccentric anomaly which is measured from the center (C) of the ellipse.
	www.physics.csbsju.edu /orbit/orbit.2d.html (1468 words)

	Kepler's Second Law--Lesson Plan #21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		(Optional) Learn (very qualitatively--how orbital motion is calculated: the polar angle f, ("true anomaly") varies unevenly around the orbit, but another angle, the "mean anomaly" M, varies steadily, and formulas exist to derive from M yet another angle, the "eccentric anomaly" E, from which f can be obtained by another transformation.
		One calculates the mean anomaly M, an angle which is also zero at perigee, but which grows at a constant rate--unlike f.
		Transformations exist from M to an intermediate angle E ("Eccentric anomaly") and from E to f.
	www.phy6.org /stargaze/Lkepl2nd.htm (1937 words)

	true- WordWeb dictionary definition
		"the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"; "the true meaning of the statement"
		"true courage"; "a spirit which true men have always admired"; "a true friend"
		"true, she is the smartest in her class"
	www.wordwebonline.com /en/TRUE (172 words)

	Will there be a seventh cycle/anomaly? (Matrix Forum)
		The Prophecy, which ended up being true, states that the purpose of The One is to END the war.
		So yes, the anomaly is still there, hence the Red eyed Agents and the flies (the Architect himself said the flies had the same pattern as the anomaly carried by Neo), etc.
		What I wanted to say was The Anomaly was not in control of the Architect.The Anomaly was intitially created(by the Oracle i must add) so that the human race will be freed some day.But the Architect had a better idea to keep it under control.
	matrix-explained.com /php/about-the-matrix-movies-2664.html (4026 words)

	Computing Vedic Planetary Positions - SpiritualMinds.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		where the l is the latitude of the planet, Y is the Longitude of the planet after deducting the Node and L is the maximum latitude of the planet and h is the Parinathi Phalam, the factor which is to be added or subtracted to the True Anomaly.
		In Mathematics there are many methods and the Western Method is to find the True Anomaly of the Planet and to it add the Argument of Perihelion (Theta = v + w).
		The Eccentric Anomaly of the Planet (an auxiliary angle used in Kepler's equations) is computed from the Mean Anomaly and the True Anomaly is computed from it.
	www.spiritualminds.com /articles.asp?articleid=1426 (1298 words)

	Homework #3 - ASEN5050 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Note: Computing the eccentric anomaly requires iteratively solving Kepler's equation.
		If the perigee height of the shuttle's orbit is 300 km, the apogee height is 600 km, and the true anomaly is 320°, what is the true anomaly at the moment the satellite is deployed?
		A satellite has been launched into a 798 x 816 km orbit (perigee height x apogee height), which is very close to the planned orbit of 795 x 814 km.
	ccar.colorado.edu /asen5050/Homework3.html (263 words)

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