New posts in Celestial Mechanics

How does the orbital motion of reduced mass tell us how the individual planets/stars move?

Orbit with crash

Estimating of the size of the Milky Way from the Sun's motion

What's the actual path of the planets?

Under which conditions do two moving bodies start orbiting each other around their center of mass?

Why does an orbit become hyperbolic when total orbital energy is positive?

Is there a maximum distance from a planet that a moon can orbit?

What are the forces behind the orbit of the Earth around the Sun?

Why does the Earth follow an elliptical trajectory rather than a parabolic one?

Kepler's 3rd law: ratios don't fit data