Parabola

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4571. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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A conic section obtained by cutting a right circular cone by a plane parallel to the side of the cone. Such a curve is open (i.e. it does not form a closed shape such as an ellipse or circle), with eccentricity = 1, and stretches to an infinite distance with the two arms tending to become parallel. The parabola forms the boundary between closed ellipses and open hyperbolas....

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