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Orbital shapes are conic sections.

A closed orbit is elliptical. That can include circular, but that's very unlikely, since the circle
is just an ellipse whose foci happen to exactly coincide.

An open orbit is hyperbolic. It can also be parabolic, but that's very unlikely, since the parabola
is just the exact boundary condition between closed and open orbits.

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