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Mechanics > Celestial Mechanics v



Hyperbolic Orbit
    

Hyperbolic orbits correspond to eccentricities e > 1,

(1)

where a is the semimajor axis Eric Weisstein's World of Math and v is the true anomaly. But r > 0, so

(2)

(3)

Define

(4)

and the ellipse equation becomes

(5)

Define

(6)

then

(7)

(8)

Let

(9)

(10)

then

(11)

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