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Our planetary system, with the Sun as central body, embraces nine planets. The characteristic data and orbital elements of these planets are very different. In Tables A.1 and A.2 a selection of this data, mainly taken from [1] to [4], are listed.

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Weiland, C. (2010). Our Planetary System. In: Computational Space Flight Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13583-5_12

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