Well Posed Origin Anywhere Consistent Systems in Celestial Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
2024-05-27 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Dynamical Systems
math.MP
Space Physics
Abstract
Certain measurements in celestial mechanics necessitate having the origin O of a Cartesian coordinate system (CCS) coincide with a point mass. For the two and three body problems we show mathematical inadequacies in Newton's celestial mechanics equations (NCME) when the origin of a coordinate system coincides with a point mass. A certain system of equations of relative differences implied by NCME is free of these inadequacies and is invariant with respect to any CCS translation. A new constant of motion is derived for the relative system. It shows that the universe of relative differences of the -body problem is ``restless''.
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@article{arxiv.2405.15639,
title = {Well Posed Origin Anywhere Consistent Systems in Celestial Mechanics},
author = {Harry Gingold and Jocelyn Quaintance},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15639},
year = {2024}
}
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12 pages