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  2. Eccentricity (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The eccentricity can be defined as the ratio of the linear eccentricity to the semimajor axis a: that is, = (lacking a center, the linear eccentricity for parabolas is not defined). It is worth to note that a parabola can be treated as an ellipse or a hyperbola, but with one focal point at infinity .

  3. Hyperbolic trajectory - Wikipedia

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    With eccentricity just over 1 the hyperbola is a sharp "v" shape. At = the asymptotes are at right angles. With > the asymptotes are more than 120° apart, and the periapsis distance is greater than the semi major axis. As eccentricity increases further the motion approaches a straight line.

  4. Semi-major and semi-minor axes - Wikipedia

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    (Given the lunar orbit's eccentricity e = 0.0549, its semi-minor axis is 383,800 km. Thus the Moon's orbit is almost circular.) Thus the Moon's orbit is almost circular.) The barycentric lunar orbit, on the other hand, has a semi-major axis of 379,730 km, the Earth's counter-orbit taking up the difference, 4,670 km.

  5. Hyperbola - Wikipedia

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    A rotation of the original hyperbola by results in a rectangular hyperbola entirely in the second and fourth quadrants, with the same asymptotes, center, semi-latus rectum, radius of curvature at the vertices, linear eccentricity, and eccentricity as for the case of + rotation, with equation =, >,

  6. Conic section - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the eccentricity (e), foci, and directrix, various geometric features and lengths are associated with a conic section. The principal axis is the line joining the foci of an ellipse or hyperbola, and its midpoint is the curve's center. A parabola has no center. The linear eccentricity (c) is the distance between the center and a ...

  7. Orbital eccentricity - Wikipedia

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    The mean eccentricity of an object is the average eccentricity as a result of perturbations over a given time period. Neptune currently has an instant (current epoch ) eccentricity of 0.011 3 , [ 13 ] but from 1800 to 2050 has a mean eccentricity of 0.008 59 .

  8. Kepler orbit - Wikipedia

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    An elliptic Kepler orbit with an eccentricity of 0.7, a parabolic Kepler orbit and a hyperbolic Kepler orbit with an eccentricity of 1.3. The distance to the focal point is a function of the polar angle relative to the horizontal line as given by the equation ()

  9. Hyperbolic coordinates - Wikipedia

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    The hyperbolic coordinates are formed on the original picture of G. de Saint-Vincent, which provided the quadrature of the hyperbola, and transcended the limits of algebraic functions. In 1875 Johann von Thünen published a theory of natural wages [ 1 ] which used geometric mean of a subsistence wage and market value of the labor using the ...