The Perihelion of Mercury

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1972
Author
Moore, Ramon E.
Greenspan, Donald
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences
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Abstract
Local finite Taylor series expansion is shown to be an efficient numerical method for the study of the n-body problem. Application is made to the accurate determination of the motion of the perihelion of Mercury according to Newtonian celestial mechanics.
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http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/57768
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Technical Report
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TR161
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