From: Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You are absolutely certain that a hyperbolic solar orbit with aphelion preceding Earth so that Earth captures it at its slowest point would always exceed LEO?
Technically, a hyperbolic orbit has no slowest point. Since it is the curve followed by objects above escape velocity, they never decelerate to zero, even with infinite time and distance (unless third bodies or non-Euclidean curvature intervene, of course). At best they approach asymptotic vectors with magnitudes equal to their velocity in excess of escape.
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