Talk:Station keeping
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I cleaned up the paragraph breaks and did a little bit of copy editing. No content was changed in any of that. I also removed an irrelevant reference to Arthur C. Clarke for two reasons: 1. A reader who did not know that Clarke lives in Sri Lanka would have no idea at all why he's mentioned here; such a reader might speculate that Clarke wrote something about the stable point above Sri Lanka instead. 2. Clarke's residence in Sri Lanka has nothing to do with the stable point, or station keeping in general. If I am wrong and it does, please restore the Clarke reference with an explanation of that relevance.
[edit] What exactly is the Tennis Ball Effect?
Is this a slang term, something made up, or is it for real? Is there a tecnical term that could be substituted here, an explanation tendered, or an article written to explain the "Tennis Ball Effect"?
[edit] Cleaned up
I cleaned this up based on 3-4 different sources, one of which looked clean enough to be citable. Having checked up in a number of places, I've not seen any further references to the tennis ball manoeuvre, but stand willing to be corrected on it. Could use linkage to some decent pictures on the various planes, etc.
