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Elliptical Orbit through Foci

When the orbit passes through one foci, each subsequent step of the orbit will pass through alternating foci and the orbit will converge to the semimajor axis. In this model, color represents time with red being the initial step. Move the large red point to see the orbit change, and move the foci to change the eccentricity of the ellipse.