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Category: Astrophysics

Bennu, Osirus Rex, and JPL’s Small Body Database

On September 4th, 2023, a sample return canister will hopefully plummet through the skies of Utah. This sample return canister, after being charred due to the heat of atmospheric re-entry, will be brought to Johnston space center where scientists will open it to reveal up to 2 kilograms of the asteroid Bennu. This will mark…

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2020-02-10adminAstrodynamics, Astrophysics, Physics

Outer Solar System Exploration – 2 Astro 2020 White Papers

Last week in my lab’s journal club I was presenting on two white papers detailing the reasoning for possible missions to explore the outer solar system. These papers are part of the Astro2020 decadal survey, and I figured I would share some thoughts on them here. As both papers are short (<10 pages each) and…

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2019-09-16adminAstrodynamics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Grad School, Journal Club, PhysicsBlog

An Introduction to Lagrange Points – The 3-Body Problem

Balancing a Marble Imagine you had a marble and you wanted to put it at the point between the Earth and the Moon where the force of gravity was equal from both. The two forces would cancel out, and the marble would remain in that location forever. If the sun and the earth were not…

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2018-12-03adminAstrodynamics, Astrophysics, Chaotic Dynamics, CR3BP, Dynamic Systems, Evergreen, Math, Nonlinear, Physics, UncategorizedBlog

Jacobi and his Constant – The 3-Body Problem

Recap In the last two posts on what is the 3-body problem and the dynamics of the three body problem I’ve shown you the following GIF with a spacecrafts trajectory  in the earth moon system. The trajectory is bouncing around what I’ve labeled a ‘forbidden region’. In this post we’ll go over the number behind…

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2018-11-26adminAstrodynamics, Astrophysics, CR3BP, Dynamic Systems, Evergreen, Math, Nonlinear, PhysicsBlog

Keplers Laws – n-Body Problem

Things Always Come in 3’s If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three. -Laurence J. Peter   Lot’s of things come in threes, there’s even a whole website devoted to three’s. Is there a reason we’re fixated on groupings of  three? Probably, but that seems like a psychology question and this post is about…

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2018-06-18adminAstrodynamics, Astrophysics, Engineering, Math, PhysicsBlog

Orbital Elements – The 2-Body Problem

Review of Constants of Integration In Last week’s post we played around with the equation of motion to transform it into forms that we could integrate. Through that we identified 5 different constants of integration. There’s actually also a sixth that I didn’t go over last time called mean angular motion and denoted by symbol, n.…

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2018-06-04adminAstrodynamics, Astrophysics, Engineering, Evergreen, Math, PhysicsBlog

Integrals of the 2-Body Problem

Introduction of the 2-Body Problem In the last orbital dynamics post I introduced the n-body problem and how there is no general analytic solution. There is a general analytic solution for a simplified version of this problem called the 2 body problem, and that’s what this post, and the next several, will be about. In this…

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2018-05-28adminAstrodynamics, Astrophysics, Dynamic Systems, Evergreen, Math, PhysicsBlog
From SBA Page 18 Figure 1

Instrumentation – Source Book in Astronomy

Series Overview: This series will be a write up of “Source book in Astronomy 1900-1950”. The book is split up into 13 sections with each one covering a different topic in astronomy. My plan is that as I read through each topic I write up the important points and then condense all of my notes…

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2018-05-14adminAstrophysics, Astrophysics, Evergreen, Optics, Physics, Source Book AstronomyBlog

What is the n-Body Problem?

Introduction to n-Body problem Lots of post on this site begin with an appeal to Newtons second law. It’s an extremely useful tool for analyzing dynamic systems. This post wont begin this way. It’ll begin with Newtons third law. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” This means that anytime a force…

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2018-05-07admin5 CommentsAstrodynamics, Astrophysics, Dynamic Systems, Engineering, Evergreen, Math, Nonlinear, PhysicsBlog

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