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The Difference in Paths: Exploring Central Force & Gravity
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[QUOTE="Orodruin, post: 6832222, member: 510075"] The path is still elliptical in a non-rotating frame. Of course, as has been said many times over, the path is parabolic only in the approximation that the gravitational field is constant. Furthermore, the path is elliptical only in the approximation of having a Kepler potential, ie, outside a spherically symmetric mass distribution (which the Earth and Sun are to quite good approximation—but not exactly and therefore the orbits are not [I]exact[/I] ellipses) [/QUOTE]
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