Talk:Specific orbital energy
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[edit] Regarding the Sign of semi-major axis
I have never seen a different equation for hyperbolic SE. Hyperbolic trajectories are normaly associated with negative semi-major axes, which correctly gives a positive energy when using the general form of the energy equation. Why present it this way?
Here is what is currently in the article:
For a hyperbolic trajectory this specific orbital energy equation takes form:
--Keebler71 18:09, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
