Abstract
No definitely parabolic or hyperbolic binary orbits are known. Provisional parabolic elements are occasionally used to represent the periastron section of a high-eccentricity orbit of long and indeterminate period. As in long-period cometary orbits, the vertex sections of parabolae and of eccentric ellipses are hard to distinguish. The parabola has one orbital element less, and permits a mass computation just as the elliptical case does.
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© 1978 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Heintz, W.D. (1978). The Parabolic Orbit. In: Double Stars. Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9836-0_21
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