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Questions regarding the mechanics or attributes of objects falling 'around' other objects, thereby orbiting them.

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How can you predict an orbit, based on an initial position and an initial direction vector?

This JPL/NAIF SPICE toolkit routine OSCELT answers what appears to be a query about the two-body problem. N.B. I assume your "direction vector" is actually a "velocity vector;" the STATE input to OSC …
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