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Re: Hyperbolas in nature
Posted:
May 6, 1996 4:40 AM
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Most--if not all--astronomical objects in high-energy (i.e., unbounded) orbits
about their primaries have hyperbolic orbits. Only those objects with
*precisely* enough energy to escape to infinity have parabolic orbits; such
objects must be extremely rare. Those with less energy have elliptic orbits;
those with more, hyperbolic.
--Lou Talman
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