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From the perspective of the perturbation theory used in celestial mechanics to compute the evolution of the orbit, thesemi-majoraxisis an adiabatic invariant.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For the special case of a circle, thesemi-majoraxisis the radius.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The expressions below give the auxiliary latitudes in terms of the geodetic latitude, thesemi-majoraxis, "a", and the eccentricity, "e".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This means that it is slightly flattened, its semi-minor axis being 70% of itssemi-majoraxis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This was possible due to large size of the planet and its smallsemi-majoraxis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This form of the equation is particularly useful when dealing with parabolic trajectories, for which thesemi-majoraxisis infinite.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thesemi-majoraxisis known if the mean motion and the gravitational mass are known.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The two stars orbit each other with asemi-majoraxisof 1.437 arcseconds and a period of 116.24 years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For any ellipse, let "a" be the length of itssemi-majoraxisand "b" be the length of its semi-minor axis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As the eccentricity of the orbit evolves, thesemi-majoraxisof the orbital ellipse remains unchanged.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thesemi-majoraxisis one half of the major axis, and thus runs from the centre, through a focus, and to the perimeter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To calculate a dynamical parallax, the angularsemi-majoraxisof the orbit of the stars around each other is observed, together with their apparent brightness.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One is invariably the equatorial radius, which is thesemi-majoraxis, "a".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This central pair has asemi-majoraxisof around 867 km and a period of about 1.9 days.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The two stars orbit around their common centre of mass once every 78.7 years and the secondary has asemi-majoraxisof 0.165 arcseconds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We obtain the orbital period of each planet, thesemi-majoraxisof its orbit and the orbital eccentricity.
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Itssemi-majoraxisis 1.8km mi and its orbital period is 16.4 hours.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the objectsemi-majoraxisis outside these narrow ranges, the orbit becomes chaotic, with widely changing orbital elements.
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