hyperbolic orbit

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hyperbolic orbit [¦hī·pər‚bäl·ik ′ȯr·bət]

(astronomy)

The path of a body moving along a hyperbola, such as a body that is subject to the gravitational attraction of another body from which it has sufficient energy to escape, and that is otherwise undisturbed.

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