Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997.
Do you need
volunteer, community service, work, military or court hours?
|
|
Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997.
|
|
Click here and add this page to your favorites!
|
Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD |
|
|
EQUATION OF THE CENTRE , in astronomy , the angular distance, measured around the centre of motion, by which a planet
ellipse deviates from the mean position which it would occupy if it moved uniformly. Its amount is the correction which must be applied positively or negatively to the mean anomaly
order
anomaly
ellipticity
orbit , is zero at pericentre and apocentre, and reaches its greatest amount nearly midway between these points. (See ANOMALY and ORBIT .)End of Article: EQUATION OF THE CENTRE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
<a href="http://jcsm.org/StudyCenter/Encyclopedia/EMS_EUD/EQUATION_OF_THE_CENTRE.html"> EQUATION OF THE CENTRE </a> |
|
|
(Previous) EQUATION (from Lat. aequatio, aequare, to equal... |
(Next) EQUATION OF TIME |
|
Sponsored Advertisements