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ORBITAL ADJUSTMENT
Abstract : If two bodies are travelling together in a circular orbit and a retrograde impulse is applied to one body, then that body moves behind the unperturbed body in angular position. However, it is obvious that the perturbed body, being in a smaller period orbit, passes the unperturbed body in angular position at some angular distance from the point at which the impulse is applied.
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