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Ihave been looking at the unanswered questions on this site for some time (for some days tbh) and in my opinion, most of them are very intriguing and interesting and they deserved to get answered. There are interesting comments beneath the questions but there is no answers or even a partial answer. Some users might comment after some months or years to give some new updates like new findings or some new information but nobody are aware of that because OPs are inactive and they do not edit the question and so they doesn't get bumped on the main page. Eventually, the question gets cold and gets accumulated in the unanswered tab.

I do not have sufficient knowledge and lack expertise in this field but I would like some of these interesting question to get answered. I do not have enough reputation to give bounties on these question. Also, these question are already well-formatted so there is no room for editing (and thus do not get bumped on the main page).

So, I would like some highly knowledgeable users here to make an effort in answering and giving some light to these questions. Note that I am not forcing anyone. Anyone who has or give a certain interest in some question might give a try, or do some edit or give some bounty and thus attract attention.

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I just wrote this answer to Orbit prediction for satellites using Kepler model which is a variation on an oft-asked question category about calculating orbits for artificial satellites (Earth-bound or deep space). I've answered many, but for perhaps the first time I didn't go back and find all the answers I usually link to that explain how to do this various ways using various techniques and approximations, from getting $t(\theta)$ analytically in a Kepler orbit to including oblateness and General relativity into numerical orbit integration.

I wonder if some kind of canonical question and community wiki answer similar to Astronomy SE's incredibly useful Where can I find the positions of the planets, stars, moons, artificial satellites, etc. and visualize them? would work here as well.

It could be limited to satellites in Earth orbit, or spacecraft trajectories in general (deep space, Lagrange-point-associated orbits) as long as the question was specifically a "How to calculate..." via computer.

1This is not my personal favorite option - I think SE sites should leverage existing material and build on it rather than ignore it or close (potentially insufficiently) answered questions as duplicates of older ones. uhoh's lemmas apply here, especially #1 and #3;

...Asking of questions is a superposition of (at least) two things; seeking solutions to our immediate problem or query and the facilitation of interesting, helpful and informative answers for the benefit of future readers.

As a relatively new user with not so much experience of being on this site, my opinion might be of less value than other long-term users on this site. Nevertheless, I will provide my opinion on this issue.

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I just want to check if anyone has additional information about a private astronomical research begun by Gauss in 1819, which dealt with the "movements of the solar system" in the galaxy (motion of the solar system relative to the fixed stars). In addition to the material in his nachlass (volumes 6 and 11:1), I found several interesting sources which show that through his correspondences and unpublished fragments Gauss was involved in attempts to try and define the movement of the sun by the statistical motion of the fixed stars.

Since i'm completely unfamiliar with those scientific matters, my question is therefore intended to be a framework for learning in a general way on this aspect of observational astronomy (i.e, mathematial tools, methodology) by achieving better understanding of Gauss's work on this. To be more specific, these are my questions:

As i said several times before, one of my main objectives in using this site is to gain a complete picture of all of Gauss's contributions to math and science, so once again, i appologize for being so annoying and tedious with my obssesive questions-asking about Gauss.

Concerning the note "About the frequency of optical double stars", i think that Gauss attempted to solve in this note a kind of probabilistic problem that is relevant to astronomy. Gauss tries to find a pattern in the most updated maps of stars up to his time - what is the fraction of double stars in a ball (sphere with volume) centred at the earth, among a total of $kM$ observed stars, and assuming uniform prior distribution (Gauss writes in his note:"...$kM$ stars scattered without a rule")? A double optical star is actually two stars whose angular distance on the celestial sphere doesn't exceed $\lambda$.

I'm still not sure if Gauss tries to solve this problem on a sphere or on a ball; it's more reasonable that he tries to solve it on a ball because in this way his calculation has direct relevance to astronomy.

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