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Monthly Reports — 2005 August
 
Murison continued working on the paper describing results from the first stage of the orbit-orbit distance project, writing text and verifying the various analytical and numerical calculations.

Murison consulted with the FTS crew and attended meetings on an occasional basis.

Murison assisted Bob Reasenberg (CfA) with a question regarding motions of two free-floating spacecraft around the Sun-Earth L2 stationary point. It turns out the orbits are highly eccentric ellipses (e=0.95) centered on the L2 point with a period of 177.6 days. Curiously, the motion is sinusoidal (not Keplerian), so for station-keeping purposes the orbits act like circles.

Murison assisted in the development of AA's new web site.