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osculating element comparison table

Subject	see also	is a kind of	has definition
orbital quantity		quantity	A quantity used for calculating orbits
osculating element	orbital element	orbital quantity	One of several parameters that specifies the instantaneous position and velocity of a celestial body in its perturbed orbit. Osculating elements describe the unperturbed (two-body) orbit that the body would follow if perturbations were to cease instantaneously.

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