Racist Celestial Mechanics

This website is intended to teach celestial mechanics to White people of average intelligence having a proper high school education. Unlike papers produced by professionals in astrodynamics, the pages of this series will make no assumptions about previous familiarity. No steps in the math will be skipped. No high-order of notation (not even a cross-product) will be substituted for ordinary algebra. All lectures will contain completely worked-out example problems.

—Jerry Abbott

Last Update: 14 August 2004

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Lecture 1. Reducing Classical Orbital Elements to a Heliocentric State Vector
Lecture 2. Determining Classical Orbital Elements from a Heliocentric State Vector
Lecture 3. Determining a Transfer Orbit between Two Points in the Heliocentric Coordinate System, with a Specified Transit Time
Lecture 4. Finding Geocentric Celestial Coordinates (Right Ascension and Declination)
from the HEC Positions of Earth and Another Planet
(not yet available)
Lecture 5. Determining an Orbit by Three Observations with the Method of Gauss (NEW!)


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