Although the term itself immediately conjures the sort of alchemy at the heart of the best sci-fi fantasy, celestial mechanics —- the numerical nuts and bolts of how planetary bodies move, orbit and ...

Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics by Edward Belbruno, Princeton University Press, £32.95/$49.95, ISBN 0691094802 Reviewed by Carl Murray YOU have just launched a ...

The film discusses the structure and dynamics of our solar system, particularly focusing on the Earth-Moon relationship and the complexities involved in launching lunar probes. It explains how the ...

“. . . it may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an ...

THE appearance of Prof. Moulton's introductory treatise on dynamical astronomy in a second edition is a sufficient proof that the work, which was first published twelve years ago, has satisfied a ...

The moon-probe Pioneer is man’s first triumph in applied celestial mechanics. Earth satellites, like bullets, baseballs or missiles, need to contend with the earth’s gravitation only. Pioneer was born ...

THE launch on March 1st of the Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a Dragon cargo capsule (pictured) to the International Space Station, went perfectly. But once the capsule had reached orbit, a problem emerged ...

FROM the beginning of civilization one need must make itself felt, namely, for some form of calendar. In turn, this gives rise to the primitive study of astronomy, involving some knowledge of the sun ...