Seppo Mikkola (born 1947) is a Finnish astronomer. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Turku and staff member at Tuorla Observatory.

Mikkola is a leading expert in celestial mechanics. He has made fundamental contributions to the theory of regularization of motion in the gravitational N-body problem.[1] Mikkola was a member of the team that determined the unusual orbit of 3753 Cruithne.

Named after him

References

  1. ↑ Mikkola, Seppo (2008). "Regular Algorithms for the Few-Body Problem". The Cambridge N-Body Lectures. Lecture Notes in Physics. Vol. 760. pp. 31–58. Bibcode:2008LNP...760...31M. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8431-7_2. ISBN 978-1-4020-8430-0.


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