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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