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Monthly Reports — 2006 May
 
Murison continued with calculation of orbital parameter errors of an orbiting body from incomplete state vector observations taken from an orbiting platform. He wrote a program to generate 'observations'.

Murison explored further a new algorithm for fast solution of Kepler's equation, performing various optimizations. He found that, for a 400×400 grid covering the full e×M domain, cpu time is minimized when the starting approximation is order 3 and the iteration order is also 3. (M is mean anomaly, e is orbital eccentricity.)

Murison continued his duties as Secretary of the AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy, conducting the 2006 DDA elections and helping the LOC with various tasks in preparation for the 2006 DDA meeting.

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