I recently read something about equations for orbits that are better than ellipses, but I forgot what they are called. Can someone help me? pic unrelated

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Anonymous Fri Apr 25 20:12:37 2014 No.6500002 [Reply] [Original]

I recently read something about equations for orbits that are better than ellipses, but I forgot what they are called. Can someone help me? pic unrelated

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 20:14:41 2014 No.6500009 Noting to contribute, but why use a default Windows picture?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 20:17:06 2014 No.6500014 Because I have nothing else to post.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 20:18:48 2014 No.6500016 Precessing ellipses?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 01:26:46 2014 No.6500579 >>6500002 circles? hyperbola? parabola?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 01:30:38 2014 No.6500581 File: 52 KB, 450x324, 1326085224039.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Epicycles!

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