Eccentric anomaly

In orbital mechanics, the eccentric anomaly is an angular parameter that defines the position of a body that is moving along an elliptic Kepler orbit, the angle measured at the center of the ellipse between the orbit's periapsis and the current position. The eccentric anomaly is one of three angular parameters ("anomalies") that can be used to define a position along an orbit, the other two being the true anomaly and the mean anomaly.

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