How does gravity sling off objects if it is a force of attraction between two bodies with mass

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We often here of star systems loosing a planet or objects (satellites) getting accelerated away from a huge source of gravity (huge mass).

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A collision with another object can eject objects from orbit. A bunch of extra force accelerating an obect in its current direction of travel, its orbit changes that it escapes the gravity well.

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