Talk:Osculating orbit

Latest comment: 15 years ago by 90.229.231.115 in topic Central body fixed?

Expansion request edit

Orbital elements says that a perturbed orbit can be modeled as a series of osculating orbits. It would be nice if this article explained how this is done, and provided some diagrams to illustrate. -- Beland (talk) 17:38, 1 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Central body fixed? edit

Is the central body assumed to be fixed or is the motion defined relative to the barycenter? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.229.231.115 (talk) 18:23, 3 February 2009 (UTC)Reply