The forgotten genius of celestial mechanics

The forgotten genius of celestial mechanics

Neil Taylor and Janet Hyde rediscover 19th-century astronomer Félix Tisserand. The Tisserand criterion is used to uniquely identify comets and asteroids – but who now remembers the man behind it? Neil Taylor and Janet Hyde rediscover Félix Tisserand, an influential 19th-century mathematician and ast...

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Veröffentlicht in:Astronomy & geophysics : the journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 2017-10, Vol.58 (5), p.5.35-5.36
Hauptverfasser: Taylor, Neil, Hyde, Janet
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Asteroids
Astronomers
Celestial mechanics
Comets
Mathematicians
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Tisserand, Felix
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Zusammenfassung:Neil Taylor and Janet Hyde rediscover 19th-century astronomer Félix Tisserand. The Tisserand criterion is used to uniquely identify comets and asteroids – but who now remembers the man behind it? Neil Taylor and Janet Hyde rediscover Félix Tisserand, an influential 19th-century mathematician and astronomer.
ISSN:1366-8781
1468-4004
DOI:10.1093/astrogeo/atx176