An elliptic orbit is a bound orbit shaped as an ellipse. A Kepler ellipse has negative specific orbital energy and eccentricity 0≤e<1.
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- Angular momentum and the escape energy threshold
- Apocentre distance
- Apogee
- Heliocentric model
- Heliocentric orbit
- Hohmann transfer time
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Kepler's third law
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Orbital energy
- Orbital radius
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- Pericentre distance
- Perigee
- Poynting–Robertson decay of a circumstellar orbit
- Tangential launch trajectories across the escape threshold
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