Orbital Eccentricity/Apsides Solver implementation

Binding contract

This record describes what an executable surface must bind and validate. It does not claim that a public calculator, package, or production route is deployed.

Record owner

Guth Instruments

Lifecycle

verified-clean

Evidence ID

t4-221

Effect

Computation or source lookup only

Input and validation requirements

The solver can encounter an undefined division when a=0. It also needs explicit validity and convention handling at e=1, across e=1, and for negative semimajor axis hyperbolic inputs; otherwise it may return misleading apsides.

Required corrections

No binding erratum is attached to this unique-name record. Implementers must still preserve the declared units, domain, and failure behavior.

Inspectable interface fixture

The sample below is evidence for interface and validation tests, not a production implementation.

{
  "inputs": {
    "a": 10000,
    "e": 0.2,
    "distance_unit": "km"
  },
  "expected_outputs": {
    "r_p": 8000,
    "r_a": 12000,
    "distance_unit": "km"
  },
  "working": "r_p = a(1-e) = 10000(1-0.2) = 10000(0.8) = 8000 km.\nr_a = a(1+e) = 10000(1+0.2) = 10000(1.2) = 12000 km."
}

Other records

Sources and evidence

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• VERIFIED_LEDGER.json
• evidence-tranche4/tranche4-results.json