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Realizing Keplerian orbits as geodesics on a surface of revolution
(2007-05-01)It is well known that in Newtonian physics, the gravitational trajectories in a central gravitational field are conic sections with one focus at the central mass. This is known as Kepler's First Law. We consider those ...