Kepler orbit

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In celestial mechanics, a Kepler orbit (or Keplerian orbit, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler) is the motion of one body relative to another, in the form of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola, which forms a two-dimensional orbital plane in three-dimensional space.

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