English-Finnish translations for eccentric anomaly

• eksentrinen anomalia

Definition of eccentric anomaly

• The angle ''PCR'formed by ''P'= the periapsis of a celestial body's elliptical orbit, ''C'= the center of that elliptical orbit, and ''R'= the ''corresponding point'to that celestial body (the projection of the celestial body along a direction parallel to the minor axis of its orbit onto the ''auxiliary circle'(a circle which shares a diameter with the major axis of the celestial body's orbit

Related words

• eccentric
• eccentricity
• eccentrically
• eccentric character
• highly eccentric orbit
• become eccentric