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  1. Newsgroups: sci.astro
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  3. From: djb@cbnews.cb.att.com (david.j.bryant)
  4. Subject: Re: Orbit Determination
  5. Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Ohio
  6. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:28:31 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Nov8.172831.5995@cbnews.cb.att.com>
  8. References: <1992Nov6.135430.6798@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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  11. While we're on the subject of orbit determination, I'd be interested in
  12. any pointers to good reference texts that describe the method of determining
  13. orbits from three (or more) visual observations.  A step-by-step approach
  14. would be best (i.e. taking you through the process of reducing your 
  15. observations and deriving the orbital parameters).   
  16.  
  17. Something with more detail than just "solve the following systems of
  18. differential equations" is called for here, as I'm really interested in
  19. an algorithmic approach I can carry out myself (and probably implement as
  20. a program, just for grins).  (Besides, it's been a *long* time since I
  21. did any differential equations...)
  22.  
  23.     Thanks,
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  25.         David Bryant                           att!cborion!djb
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