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elliptical orbit
subject			fact

elliptical orbit	has parameters orbital element
	has amplitude equal to the semimajor axis
	has period proportional to the orbital period
	is a kind of orbit
	is a kind of ellipse
	is a kind of harmonic motion
harmonic motion	has synonym periodic motion
conic section	has dimensions 2
physical process	has domain physics

Kinds of elliptical orbit :

• commensurate orbit (3 facts) - A term applied to two bodies orbiting around a common barycenter when the period of one is an integral multiple of that of the other.
• libration orbit (2 facts) - An elliptical orbit associated with a stable Lagrangian point.