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So, whenever you see a celestial body --
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here's the Sun --
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you see some celestial thing moving around,
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you can compute the total energy.
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If the total energy is negative,
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that object is bound to go on orbiting the Sun.
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It can never escape the infinity.
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If the total energy is positive,
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it can go to infinity.
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And zero is the borderline case.
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So, why is it that if the total energy is negative,
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the body can never run off to infinity?