RE: [amsat-bb] Osculating element sets and secular effects

["Joseph B. Fitzgerald" <jfitzgerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom, Ken and Bob,

Thanks for the answers.  I had a notion that "secular" was being used in
the sense of "worldly", but was pretty baffled by "osculating"  ... the
Google links I found talked about it, but I didn't pick up on the origin
of the term.

And thanks to the other guys for the humor also!

-Joe KM1P


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