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Eccentric AnomalyThe eccentric anomaly is the angle between the direction of periapsis and the current position of an object on its orbit, projected onto the ellipse's circumscribing circle perpendicularly to the major axis, measured at the centre of the ellipse. In the diagram below, it is E (the angle zcx). Calculation In astrodynamics eccentric anomaly E can be calculated as follows: -
or equivalently -
The relations between the radius (position vector magnitude) and the anomalies are: -
and -
See also Reference - Murray, C. D. & Dermott, S. F. 1999, Solar System Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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