AlphaCentauriApproach:

Path: Interplanetary/AlphaCentauri

% Analysis of approach orbits to Alpha Centauri binary system
 
   Alpha Centauri A-B system is in XY plane
   The spacecraft approaches from Earth at:
       16.7 deg elevation angle to the plane
     -122.2 deg azimuth angle (measured from perigee of B's orbit about A)


   Begin approach with a hyperbolic orbit around A.
   You may use this as an initial condition to numerically integrate RHS
   to see effect of B disturbance. Use RHSAlphaCentauriMission.

   Since version 10.
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Children:

Orbit: OrbitMechanics/RVOrbGen
SC: BasicOrbit/CP2I
Common: Database/Constant
Common: Graphics/Plot2D
Common: Graphics/Plot3D
Common: Transform/DMS2Rad
Common: Transform/HMS2Rad
Math: Linear/Mag
Math: Linear/Unit

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