Concept information
Preferred term
Celestial mechanics
Definition
- The branch of astronomy that deals with the calculation of motions of celestial bodies under the action of their mutual gravitational attractions. (en)
Broader concept
- Gravitation (en)
Narrower concepts
- Apparent superluminal motion (en)
- Astrodynamics (en)
- Close encounters (en)
- Kepler's laws (en)
- Lunar theory (en)
- N-body problem (en)
- Orbits (en)
- Perturbation methods (en)
- Three-body problem (en)
- Two-body problem (en)
URI
http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/211
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