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This book is based on the author's lectures at the Yerevan State University, Yerevan Polytechnic Institute and to Soviet cosmonauts. Oriented toward students, it includes details on Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet's impact with Jupiter, flight of Ulysses over the Solar poles, and Voyagers' solar system tour.
The Universal Law of Gravitation
The Two-body Problem
Derivation of Kepler's Laws from Newton's Law
Motion or Celestial Bodies
Ephemerides or Celestial Bodies
Determination or the Orbit of a Celestial Body from Observations
Determination of Elements of the Orbits by Three Observations
The N-body problem
The Restricted Three-body Problem
The Theory of Perturbations
Trajectories of Interplanetary Flights
Flights to the Moon
Flights to the Planets
Canonical Equations of Celestial Mechanics