The Motion of a Particle in Orbit around a Growing Mass.

The Motion of a Particle in Orbit around a Growing Mass.

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Addresses the question, "What happens to the orbital eccentricity of a particle in orbit around a body that is accumulating mass by accretion, as the planets may have done?" A JOSS program was devised, involving iterative solution of Kepler's equati...