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An orbit can have an eccentricity greater than 1. It is the type of orbit that an object has when it comes in from outer space at high speed on a single encounter with the Sun before it disappears off into interstellar space again. This type of orbit is called a hyperbola, and it is the fourth type of conic section along with the circle, the ellipse and the parabola.

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