On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Anthony Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/11/2011 6:32 PM, David Scheidt wrote:
>
>> Sure there are.  There's no closed form, but there are iterative
>> methods that will produce a result with arbitrary accuracy.
>
> Sure, I've written one. However, it's not an equation that can be looked up.
>
             ∞
E = M + 𝛴  (2/k) Jk (ke) sin (kM), where Jk is the kth Bessel
function of the first kind, and M is
            k =1
                         the mean anomoly sure looks like an equation to me.



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David Scheidt
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