The discovery of Ceres: How Gauss became famous.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Teets, Donald; Whitehead, Karen
- Source
- Mathematics Magazine. Apr99, Vol. 72 Issue 2, p83. 11p. 3 Diagrams.
- Subject
- *ASTEROID orbits
*ORBITAL mechanics
- Language
- ISSN
- 0025-570X
Presents computations on the orbit of the planetoid Ceres Ferdinandea by Freidrich Gauss. Historical background of the Ceres orbit problem; Theory of the motion of the heavenly bodies; Basic terminologies of planetary orbits; Gaussian method of computation.