It skimmed Earth's atmosphere Sunday in a slingshot maneuver to give Lucy an extra boost of orbital energy.
周日,它以弹弓动作掠过地球大气层,为露西提供了额外的轨道能量。
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As their orbits shrink, the black holes should radiate away some of their orbital energy as the sought-after gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein a century ago.
In the gravitational two-body problem, the specific orbital energy (or vis-viva energy) of two orbiting bodies is the constant sum of their mutual potential energy () and their total kinetic energy (), divided by the reduced mass. According to the orbital energy conservation equation (also referred to as vis-viva equation), it does not vary with time: