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| Conic Sections |
 Title text: They're not generally used for crewed spacecraft because astronauts HATE going around the corners. |
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Astronauts would hate going around the corners due to the rapid and sudden change in direction. The momentum would exert a large number of G-forces, potentially killing the astronauts.
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- [A view of the Earth, focused on Asia and the Indian Ocean with East Africa at left and the Western Pacific and Australia at right. A satellite is shown in an unusual orbit around the planet.]
- [Caption below the panel:]
- All Keplerian orbits are conic sections. For example, this one uses the base of the cone.
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Isn't the base of a cone, just a circle? How would this have "corners"? SDSpivey (talk) 01:41, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
- The cone upon which a conic section exists doesn't actually have a base, it's just arbitrarily large (possibly infinitely so) in order for the section to only ever lay along the 'curve' of the cone part.
- But, here, the base is wwhere you give up on plotting how far 'down the cone' you go, of the sufficiently large ellipse (or possibly parabolic/hyperbolic curve), which is indeed round but has an sharp (i.e. acute) angle between its flat (and incidentally circular) plane-section and the 'wrapped' pseudo-euclidean plane of the conic-section it intersects with. 92.23.2.208 01:50, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
Bring a jacket and spoon for orbits that go through the ice cream.Lord Pishky (talk) 01:43, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure this is the shape of the flat bottom of a cake cone. 71.212.56.254 03:02, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
- They REALLY hate the flat-bottom cone orbits and the waffle cones make for a bumpy ride.Lord Pishky (talk) 18:57, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
It appears to be a cut-off section of an ellipse, so basically a regular orbit with a sharp line. (Desmos) Tanner07 (talk) 04:29, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
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