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Magyar: Elements of an orbit

DescriptionOrbit.svg	An illustration of some of the orbital elements that establishes the position of an object in freefall around a central attractive force.
Date	7 August 2006
Source	Image:Orbit.png
Author	Arpad Horvath based on an image created by Urhixidur: Image:Orbit.png
Permission (Reusing this file)	Creative Commons 2.5
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Revision comment

The earlier version of Orbit.svg labeled True anomaly incorrectly as Mean anomaly. This version corrects that. With this change, the illustration still serves the articles it supports since there is some flexibility in presenting certain orbital elements. In particular, one has flexibility in expressing where an object is at a particular time. Based on a patient reading of orbital elements, one may state a time, the 'epoch', and use the other elements to work out the position. One may also state a position and use this with the other elements to work out the time since periapsis passage. Here true anomaly, a rotation of a vector rooted at the focus and measured from periapsis, serves as such a position. Since we are not obliged to illustrate mean anomaly, it seemed easier to just relabel this diagram correctly. Such a change is easy since Arpad Horvath furnished an SVG file. With this change, I believe I've addressed the issues raised by myself and and can remove the 'Caveat' and cleanup request tag. What I haven't addressed is the corresponding changes to Image:Orbit_hu.svg. Alas, my command of Hungarian is suspect and trust that Arpad Horvath might rise to the occasion. -- Garry R. Osgood 22:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

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Made by Arpad Horvath with Inkscape. I made the svg copy of en:Image:Orbit.png with some modification.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:41, 8 March 2011	525 × 525 (24 KB)	Stündle	swapped some text-span elements additionally
	18:27, 8 March 2011	525 × 525 (17 KB)	Stündle	regenerated with inkscape
	21:17, 7 August 2006	525 × 525 (26 KB)	Garry R. Osgood	{{Information \|Description=An illustration of some of the orbital elements that establishes the position of an object in freefall around a central attractive force. \|Source= \|Date= \|Author=Arpad Horvath based on an image created by [[w:User:
	15:22, 8 June 2006	525 × 525 (26 KB)	Harp	perihelium from ascending node!!!
	08:59, 30 May 2006	525 × 525 (26 KB)	Harp	at the previous occasion the big omega changed to 1/2, I don't know. why. I draw it as a curve now :-(
	08:49, 30 May 2006	525 × 525 (26 KB)	Harp	some small modification for better appearance
	14:00, 26 May 2006	525 × 525 (26 KB)	Harp	== Summary == {{hu\|Elements of an orbit}} ==About figure== Made by Arpad Horvath with Inkscape. I made the svg copy of en:Image:Orbit.png with some modification. == Licensing == {{self\|cc-by-sa-2.5}} [[Category:Celes