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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 NN-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

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