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coincide with τ, the time of pericenter passage. The classical method of finding the position of an object in an elliptical orbit from a set of orbital elements...10 KB (1,402 words) - 12:57, 1 September 2024
Apsis (redirect from Pericenter)orbital altitude of the spacecraft above the surface of the central body (assuming a constant, standard reference radius). The words "pericenter" and "apocenter"...42 KB (3,906 words) - 14:59, 3 November 2024
Sagittarius A* (redirect from Black Hole at the center of the galaxy)of pericenter passage, P is the orbital period in years and Kmag is the infrared K-band apparent magnitude of the star. q and v are the pericenter distance...73 KB (7,650 words) - 10:15, 10 November 2024
S2 (star) (category Tests of general relativity)(Sgr A*), orbiting it with a period of 16.0518 years, a semi-major axis of about 970 au, and a pericenter distance of 17 light hours (18 Tm or 120 au) –...22 KB (2,296 words) - 11:11, 5 July 2024- Orbital elements (redirect from Elements of an orbit)orbital plane and with x̂ in the direction to the pericenter (periapsis). ẑ is perpendicular to the plane of the orbit. ŷ is mutually perpendicular to x̂ and...24 KB (3,178 words) - 17:40, 9 November 2024
SMART-1 (category Space programme of Sweden)reboots, finding the spacecraft in SAFE mode after every pericenter passage. The analysis of the spacecraft telemetry pointed directly to a radiation-triggered...32 KB (3,336 words) - 20:41, 7 November 2024- Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering (redirect from List of Greek letters used in math)context) longitude of pericenter, in astronomy comoving distance, in cosmology P {\displaystyle \mathrm {P} } represents: one of the Gegenbauer functions...37 KB (3,441 words) - 16:38, 16 October 2024
- fraction of an elliptical orbit's period that has elapsed since the orbiting body passed periapsis, expressed as the angular distance from the pericenter which...161 KB (18,470 words) - 08:08, 9 October 2024
- Argument of periapsis – (also called argument of perifocus or argument of pericenter), symbolized as ω, is one of the orbital elements of an orbiting...195 KB (24,147 words) - 21:16, 23 October 2024
Marcos, Raúl (1 November 2017). "Pole, Pericenter, and Nodes of the Interstellar Minor Body A/2017 U1". Research Notes of the AAS. 1 (1): 9 (2 pages). arXiv:1711...11 KB (916 words) - 01:33, 9 November 2024
Orbital resonance (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2021)result in small pericenters, typically leading to a collision or (for large moons) destruction by tidal forces. In an example of another type of resonance involving...97 KB (10,257 words) - 20:14, 24 October 2024
Increasing eccentricity results in smaller pericenters and large apocenters. The satellites enter the zone of the regular (larger) moons and are lost or...39 KB (3,987 words) - 02:39, 15 November 2024
The mass of this companion is about one tenth of the mass of Delta Cephei and the two come to within 2 astronomical units at pericenter passage. The presence...21 KB (1,805 words) - 00:26, 3 September 2024
- time of pericenter passage (astronomy) A time at which an orbiting body passes through the pericenter, closest to the central body. time of pericentre
- ALTITUDE METHOD. longitude of Greenwich at time of perigee. See RIGHT ASCENSION OF GREENWICH AT TIME OF PERIGEE. longitude of pericenter. An orbital element
- ArgOfPericenter is used. Optional, the orbit's longitude of pericenter, in degrees. This is the sum of the argument of pericenter and the longitude of the