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  2. Hyperbolic trajectory - Wikipedia

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    A radial hyperbolic trajectory is a non-periodic trajectory on a straight line where the relative speed of the two objects always exceeds the escape velocity. There are two cases: the bodies move away from each other or towards each other. This is a hyperbolic orbit with semi-minor axis = 0 and eccentricity = 1.

  3. Orbital eccentricity - Wikipedia

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    Comet C/1980 E1 has the largest eccentricity of any known hyperbolic comet of solar origin with an eccentricity of 1.057, [10] and will eventually leave the Solar System. ʻOumuamua is the first interstellar object to be found passing through the Solar System.

  4. Eccentricity (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the eccentricity of a conic section is a non-negative real number that uniquely characterizes its shape. One can think of the eccentricity as a measure of how much a conic section deviates from being circular. In particular: The eccentricity of a circle is 0. The eccentricity of an ellipse which is not a circle is between 0 and 1.

  5. Radial trajectory - Wikipedia

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    Radial hyperbolic trajectory: a non-periodic orbit where the relative speed of the two objects always exceeds the escape velocity. There are two cases: the bodies move away from each other or towards each other. This is a hyperbolic orbit with semi-minor axis = 0 and eccentricity = 1. Although the eccentricity is 1 this is not a parabolic orbit.

  6. List of hyperbolic comets - Wikipedia

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    By definition, a hyperbolic orbit means that the comet will only travel through the Solar System once, with the Sun acting as a gravitational slingshot, sending the comet hurtling out of the Solar System entirely unless its eccentricity is otherwise changed. Comets orbiting in this way still originate from the Solar System, however.

  7. Hyperbolic asteroid - Wikipedia

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    A hyperbolic asteroid is any sort of asteroid or non-cometary astronomical object observed to have an orbit not bound to the Sun and will have an orbital eccentricity greater than 1 when near perihelion. [1] Unlike hyperbolic comets, they have not been seen out-gassing light elements, and therefore have no cometary coma. Most of these objects ...

  8. Kepler's equation - Wikipedia

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    In orbital mechanics, Kepler's equation relates various geometric properties of the orbit of a body subject to a central force.. It was derived by Johannes Kepler in 1609 in Chapter 60 of his Astronomia nova, [1] [2] and in book V of his Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (1621) Kepler proposed an iterative solution to the equation.

  9. Lambert's problem - Wikipedia

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    eccentricity = 0.566613 ... Paper by James D. Thorne with a direct algebraic solution based on hypergeometric series reversion of all hyperbolic and elliptic cases of ...