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

Murison is investigating the connections between the arc length of an elliptical orbit, elliptic integrals, modular functions, Fermat's Last Theorem (very obliquely!), and the orbit-orbit distance problem. The ideas for this came about while perusing the collected papers of Ramanujan.

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

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

Murison continued his DDA duties, writing the DDA portion of the next AAS Newsletter and helping the LOC with various tasks in preparation for the 2006 DDA meeting.