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What did general relativity clarify about Mercury?
I frequently hear that Kepler, using his equations of orbital motion, could predict the orbits of all the planets to a high degree of accuracy -- except Mercury. I've heard that mercury's motion ...
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the collision of Phobos
Mars has two moons: Phobos and Deimos. Both are irregular and are believed to have been captured from the nearby asteroid belt.
Phobos always shows the same face to Mars because of tidal forces ...
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Do black holes accelerate in spin as they obtain more mass?
It is known that - When a star collapses during the formation of the black hole, the black hole obtains the spin of the star which it collapsed from...
What I'd like to know is, If this spin ...
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Angular momentum components as independent integrals of motion
I was told that in order to solve the Kepler problem (6 degrees of freedom in total) you have to proceed, step by step, to reduce those degrees of freedom using the integrals of motion. You do so ...
