Remark on orbital precession due to central-force perturbations
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
This is a comment on the recent paper by G. S. Adkins and J. McDonnell ``Orbital precession due to central-force perturbations'' published in Phys. Rev. D75 (2007), 082001 [arXiv:gr-qc/0702015]. We show that the main result of this paper, the formula for the precession of Keplerian orbits induced by central-force perturbations, can be obtained very simply by the use of Hamilton's vector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0802.2431,
title = {Remark on orbital precession due to central-force perturbations},
author = {O. I. Chashchina and Z. K. Silagadze},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.2431},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
3 pages, ReVTeX4, title changed to match the version to be published in Phys. Rev. D, one new reference added, minor corrections in the text