Phys. Rev. D 77, 107502 (2008) [2 pages]Remark on orbital precession due to central-force perturbationsReceived 19 February 2008; published 12 May 2008 We show that the main result of the recent paper by G. S. Adkins and J. McDonnell Phys. Rev. D 75 082001 (2007), the formula for the precession of Keplerian orbits induced by central-force perturbations, can be obtained very simply by the use of Hamilton’s vector. © 2008 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.107502
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.107502
PACS:
04.80.Cc
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