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Science Links and Pages, mostly relating to Gravity, Gravity Assist, and Planetary Orbits
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Slingshot	https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-slingshot
Gravity Assist	https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/acaad8/pdf
Gravitational Slingshot	https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath114/kmath114.htm
Gravity Assist Primer	https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/primer/
Gravity Assist	https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1440099/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Gravity Assist	https://www.planetary.org/articles/20130926-gravity-assist
Grav Assist Slingshot, #1	https://www.eeworldonline.com/gravity-assist-slingshot-part-1-background-principle-faq/
Grav Assist	https://www.adrc.iastate.edu/files/2012/05/Gravity-Assist-Preliminary-Research.pdf
Grav Assist 100+ pages	https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/145190657.pdf
Orbit from elements	https://www.astro.uvic.ca/~tatum/celmechs/celm10.pdf
10.2: Elements of an Elliptic Orbit - Physics LibreTexts	https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Astronomy__Cosmology/Celestial_Mechanics_(Tatum)/10%3A_Computation_of_an_Ephemeris/10.02%3A_Elements_of_an_Elliptic_Orbit
Planetary Ephemeris	ttps://orbital-mechanics.space/reference/planetary-ephemeris.html
Google Search, ephemerides	https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+calculate+an+orbit+from+ephemerides&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#ip=1
General SR axis rotation	https://groups.oist.jp/system/files/Lecture2-2.pdf
Brown Edu - Taylor	https://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/sg/AM35odes.pdf
Potentials	https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0204034.pdf
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