True Anomaly vs. Mean Anomaly
Channel: OrbitNerd
Date: 2013-09-26

This video explains what the Mean Anomaly is, how it relates to the True Anomaly, and how to use the Mean Anomaly to propagate a simple 2-body orbit.

In case the links don't work within the video: 
http://orbitnerd.com/blog/2013/6/11/basic-orbit-shapes
http://orbitnerd.com/blog/2013/8/9/cartesian-vs-keplerian-elements

As promised, here are the scripts which will do the conversions between True Anomaly, Mean Anomaly, and Eccentric Anomaly: https://github.com/lbaars/orbit-nerd-scripts

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