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TABLE OF CONTENTS Vol.50 No.1 1990/91 Publisher’s Note Editorial Note J.M. ANTHONY DANBY /T he Birth of Celestial Mechanics RAYNOR L. DUNCOMBE / Celestial Mechanics, Coming of Age JACQUES HENRARD / Acknowledgment of Referees 1989-1990 CARLES D{EZ, ANGEL JORBA and CARLES SIMO / A Dynamical Equiv- alent to the Equilateral Libration Points of the Earth-Moon System ALESSANDRA CELLETTI and ANTONIO GIORGILLI / On the Stability of the Lagrangian Points in the Spatial Restricted Problem of Three Bodies HIROSHI KINOSHITA, HARUO YOSHIDA, and HIROSHI NAKAI / Symplectic Integrators and Their Application to Dynamical Astronomy WANG QIU-DONG / The Global Solution of the N-Body Problem JAUME LLIBRE / On the Number of Central Configurations in the N-Body Problem The Use of the “SPACEKAP” Style File for Delivering Manuscripts in LaTeX Vol.50 No.2 1990/91 M. PASCAL and S.Ia. STEPANOV / On a Semi-Inverse Problem in the Motion of Gyrostat Satellites MARIA DINA VIVARELLI / On the Connection Among Three Classical Mechanical Problems Via the Hypercomplex KS-Transformation STEFANO CASOTTO / Spectral Decomposition of Geopotential, Earth and Ocean Tidal Perturbations in Linear Satellite Theory MICHAEL E. HOUGH / Motion on Two-Dimensional Manifolds in Rotating Coordinates YOSHIO KUBO / Solution to the Rotation of the Elastic Earth by Method of Rigid Dynamics Letter: Is the Mass of Mercury 1/6 000 000? Book Reviews: Inertial Coordinate Systems on the Sky. Symposium No. 141 of the IAU. Edited by Jay H. Lieske and Victor K. Abalakine Danby, J.M.A.: 1988, Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics Soffel, M.H.: 1989, Relativity in Astrometry, Celestial Mechanics and Geodesy Vol.50 No.3 1990/91 S. M. EL-SHABOURY / Equilibrium Solutions of the Restricted Problem of 2+2 Axisymmetric Rigid Bodies J. HAGEL / An Approximate Integral and Solution for Eccentric Planetary Type Orbits in the Restricted Problem of Three Bodies V. G. DEMIN, Y. G. MARKOYV, and I. S. MINYAEV / On the Motion Around the Centre of Mass of a Viscously Elastic Sphere in the Restricted Elliptic Three-Body Problem G. CONTOPOULOS / The Generation of Spiral Characteristics ROBERT W. EASTON / Capture Orbits and Melnikov Integrals in the Planar Three-Body Problem Vol.50 No.4 1990/91 A. BRUNINI / Comments on the Symmetric Difference Quotient and Its Applications to the Correction of Orbits by R.A. Serafin and E. Wnuk T.J. KALVOURIDIS / The Three-Dimensional Equilibria of Magnetic-Binary Systems with Oblate Primaries F.N. DIACU / Tame and Chaotic Behavior in the Planar Isosceles 3-Body Problem O. RAGOS and C. ZAGOURAS / Periodic Solutions Around the Collinear Langrangian Points in the Photogravitational Restricted Three-Body Problem: Sun-Jupiter Case LI-SHENG WANG, P.S. KRISHNAPRASAD and J.H. MADDOCKS / Hamiltonian Dynamics of a Rigid Body in a Central Gravitational Field J. GREINER / Higher Order Resonant Orbits The Use of the “SPACEKAP” Style File for Delivering Manuscripts in LaTeX