An improved algorithm due to laguerre for the solution of Kepler's equation

@article{Conway1986AnIA,
  title={An improved algorithm due to laguerre for the solution of Kepler's equation},
  author={Bruce A. Conway},
  journal={Celestial mechanics},
  year={1986},
  volume={39},
  pages={199-211}
}
  • B. Conway
  • Published 1 June 1986
  • Physics
  • Celestial mechanics
A root-finding method due to Laguerre (1834–1886) is applied to the solution of the Kepler problem. The speed of convergence of this method is compared with that of Newton's method and several higher-order Newton methods for the problem formulated in both conventional and universal variables and for both elliptic and hyperbolic orbits. In many thousands of trials the Laguerre method never failed to converge to the correct solution, even from exceptionally poor starting approximations. The non… 
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