Table of Contents

1 The Restless Universe 2 Coordinate and Time-Keeping Systems 3 The Reduction of Observational Data 4 The Two-Body Problem 5 The Many-Body Problem 6 The Caledonian Symmetric N-body Problem 7 General Perturbations 8 Special Perturbations 9 The Stability and Evolution of the Solar System 10 Lunar Theory 11 Arti?cial Satellites 12 Rocket Dynamics and Transfer Orbits 13 Interplanetary and Lunar Trajectories 14 Orbit Determination and Interplanetary Navigation 15 Binary and Other Few-Body Systems 16 Many-Body Stellar Systems

Reviews

“Roy updates this fourth edition of an established text to include new research results … While the text is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in disciplines ranging from astronomy and planetary science to aerospace and satellite engineering, its discussion of orbital computation will be of interest to serious amateur astronomers.”
—SciTech Book News, December 2006

“Each chapter is accompanied by exercises (with answers and some hints) that are designed to give the student confidence. This book retains its usefulness as a comprehensive text on introductory celestial mechanics… .”
— James Collett,Physical Science Educational Reviews,Vol. 7 Issue 1, June 2006

Praise for the Third Edition
“…a classic text … on the orbits of everything from galactic clusters down to grapefruit-sized Earth satellites.”
— Planet Space Science