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PARABOLIC ORBIT [1 record]

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Record 1 1996-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Planets
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
CONT

in rare instances, an orbit may be parabolic or hyperbolic.

CONT

Conic sections became objects of intense interest in the seventeenth century, first when the German astronomer Johannes Kepler determined the planets, comets and other bodies orbit the sun in elliptical paths, and later when Newton discovered that those bodies may also follow parabolic and hyperbolic orbits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planètes
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
CONT

leur excentricité peut atteindre quelquefois l'unité: l'orbite devient alors quasi parabolique ou franchement parabolique

Spanish

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