The zero-velocity surface is a concept that relates to the N-body problem of gravity. The zero-velocity surface is particularly significant when working with weak gravitational interactions among orbiting bodies.
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“Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)