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  • Look up osculate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In mathematics, osculate, meaning to touch (from the Latin osculum meaning kiss), may refer to: osculant...
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    An osculating circle is a circle that best approximates the curvature of a curve at a specific point. It is tangent to the curve at that point and has...
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    vectors (position and velocity). The word osculate is Latin for "kiss". In mathematics, two curves osculate when they just touch, without (necessarily)...
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    the point. The word osculate is from the Latin osculatus which is a past participle of osculari, meaning to kiss. An osculating plane is thus a plane...
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    In differential geometry, an osculating curve is a plane curve from a given family that has the highest possible order of contact with another curve. That...
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    Venus (redirect from Human mission to Venus)
    2000-01-01 12:00 to 2000-01-02". ("Target Body: Venus" and "Center: Sun" should be set to default.) Results are instantaneous osculating values at the precise...
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    The best local spherical approximation to the ellipsoid in the vicinity of a given point is the Earth's osculating sphere. Its radius equals Earth's Gaussian...
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  • Curvature (category Articles to be expanded from October 2019)
    its osculating circle — that is, the circle that best approximates the curve near this point. The curvature of a straight line is zero. In contrast to the...
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  • line is an osculating curve from the family of lines, and has first-order contact with the given curve; an osculating circle is an osculating curve from...
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    respectively of a body's direct orbit around the Sun. Comparing osculating elements at a specific epoch to effectively those at a different epoch will generate differences...
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  • it is twisting out of the osculating plane. Taken together, the curvature and the torsion of a space curve are analogous to the curvature of a plane curve...
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    1989" Orbital elements refer to the Neptune barycentre and Solar System barycentre. These are the instantaneous osculating values at the precise J2000...
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    center of every osculating circle is at the center of the sphere and the focal surface forms a single point. This property is unique to the sphere. All...
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    minorplanetcenter.net. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Horizons output. "Barycentric Osculating Orbital Elements for Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)". Retrieved 2023-09-01...
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  • written symbols for Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn have been traced to forms found in late Classical Greek papyri. The symbols for Jupiter and Saturn...
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  • a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object. In astronomy, it usually applies to planets or asteroids orbiting the Sun...
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    February 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2021. Horizons output. "Barycentric Osculating Orbital Elements for 90377 Sedna (2003 VB12)". Retrieved 18 September...
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    elements are temporarily listed here with inaccurate osculating orbital elements that are italicized to distinguish them from other irregular moons with proper...
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    original on 2021-03-02. Retrieved 2020-11-16. Horizons output. "Barycentric Osculating Orbital Elements for Comet C/1999 F1 (Catalina)". Archived from the original...
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    time standard is called Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB). Barycentric osculating orbital elements for some objects in the Solar System are as follows:...
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