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I understand what a plane is, but not really how to find the equation of a specific one. Thanks!

I have a lot of other points, but these three are the only ones that are required to fit the parabola. Thanks for helping me out so far!

If its too long of an explanation, do you know where I could find good information about fitting a plane to my points? (I used google but couldn't find many good sources) I'm in high school and my math knowledge goes up to Calc BC, so I don't have much experience in 3-dimensional space

I got home today and was able to pull up some of the data from one trial I generated. Here are three points of the small body (before, at, and after the closest approach that I could see) (I translated its position to be relative to the main body) (-0.000461,0.003841, -0.001400) (0.000766...

Oops sorry then! Some more specifics about my problem: I'm launching a small body( with initial x,y, and z velocities) towards a much larger body, when the smaller body gets close to the larger body I'm treating its path during its closest encounter as a parabola and trying to fit the points of...

I'm trying to write code to automatically fit positional data during a specific time frame of orbit for a body to a parabolic curve, so I don't think a conic section could fit my positional data

thanks for the reply, but I would like to fit the data to a curve

Homework Statement I'm trying to go about fitting some (x,y,z) coordinate data that I got out of a simulation to a parabola, but I'm not entirely sure how. Is there a general equation for a parabola that instead of having usual (x,y) coordinates has (x,y,z) coordinates? Homework Equations...