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Revision as of 12:52, 18 February 2007

Orbital dynamics is the study of the motion of objects in the presence of gravitational forces of other bodies. All bodies provide a gravitational pull on other bodies surrounding it. The force exerted by two bodies on each other is given by

<math>F = \frac{Gm_{1}m_{2}}{r^{2}}</math>

where G is the Universal Gravitational Constant whose value is 'insert value here', <math>m_1</math> is the mass of the first body, <math>m_2</math> is the mass of the second body, and r is the distance between them.


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