orbital eccentricity

parameter that determines the amount by which an orbit deviates from a perfect circle
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orbital eccentricity

Summary

orbital eccentricity ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (782 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • orbital eccentricity's image is recorded as Animation of Orbital eccentricity.gif[2].
  • orbital eccentricity's subclass of is recorded as physical quantity[3].
  • orbital eccentricity's subclass of is recorded as eccentricity[4].
  • orbital eccentricity's part of is recorded as Keplerian elements[5].
  • orbital eccentricity's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/045ylc[6].
  • orbital eccentricity's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/eccentricity-astronomy[7].
  • orbital eccentricity's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1096[8].
  • orbital eccentricity's different from is recorded as eccentricity[9].
  • orbital eccentricity's defining formula is recorded as e = \sqrt{1 + \frac{2 E L^2}{m_\text{red} \alpha ^2}}[10].
  • orbital eccentricity's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4928047[11].
  • orbital eccentricity's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as orbital-eccentricity[12].
  • orbital eccentricity's ISQ dimension is recorded as 1[13].
  • orbital eccentricity's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 441[14].
  • orbital eccentricity's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15].
  • orbital eccentricity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[16].
  • orbital eccentricity's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 125311221[17].
  • orbital eccentricity's in defining formula is recorded as e[18].
  • orbital eccentricity's Wolfram Language quantity ID is recorded as OrbitalEccentricity[19].
  • orbital eccentricity's quantity symbol is recorded as e[20].
  • orbital eccentricity's quantity symbol is recorded as \varepsilon[21].
  • orbital eccentricity's MetaSat ID is recorded as orbitalEccentricity[22].
  • orbital eccentricity's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C125311221[23].

Why It Matters

orbital eccentricity ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (782 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  22. [23] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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