He adds that a planet formed in this misaligned part of the fractured disk would have a highly unusual orbit.
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Phobos also completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes, so its dark shadow is constantly sweeping across the Martian landscape.
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Northrup Grumman is contributing designs from its Cygnus spacecraft for parts of the lander that will propel it from orbit to the moon and Draper is designing guidance and avionics systems.
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The company delivered 58 of the company’s Starlink satellites to orbit, along with three SkySat satellites for Planet Labs Inc.
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Company CEO Elon Musk had stated he wanted to fly Starship 12 miles into the air within just a couple months when he first unveiled the design last September, and that it would fly into orbit within half a year.
SpaceX flew a prototype of its Starship vehicle for the first time|Neel Patel|August 5, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Each CAP, also known as an “orbit,” consists on four aircraft.
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Orion will orbit Earth twice before splashing down off the California coast.
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You are, for example, still subject to earthly gravity, and not in orbit.
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Seasons on Earth and Titan are both due to the tilt of their axis—the way the North Pole faces—relative to their orbit.
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He said he considered himself honored to have worked in the orbit of the late Nelson Mandela and considered him a mentor.
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In all such cases, if the projectile was lodged in the orbit, the eye was removed together with the projectile.
The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt|James W. Barrett
She only entered Mrs. Forrester's orbit, that was evident, as a tiny satellite in attendance on the streaming comet.
Tante|Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Each brain comes clothed with its own secret, having its own orbit, attaining its own unique experience.
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Those ships have been put out in orbit, where we're hooked on to one of them.
Pariah Planet|Murray Leinster
As we revolve in our orbit we approach or recede any given star, and our rate of motion being known we thus obtain a second test.
The Beauties of Nature|Sir John Lubbock
British Dictionary definitions for orbit
orbit
/ (ˈɔːbɪt) /
noun
astronomythe curved path, usually elliptical, followed by a planet, satellite, comet, etc, in its motion around another celestial body under the influence of gravitation
a range or field of action or influence; spherehe is out of my orbit
anatomythe bony cavity containing the eyeballNontechnical name: eye socket
zoology
the skin surrounding the eye of a bird
the hollow in which lies the eye or eyestalk of an insect or other arthropod
physicsthe path of an electron in its motion around the nucleus of an atom
verb
to move around (a body) in a curved path, usually circular or elliptical
(tr)to send (a satellite, spacecraft, etc) into orbit
(intr)to move in or as if in an orbit
Word Origin for orbit
C16: from Latin orbita course, from orbis circle, orb
In astronomy, the path followed by an object revolving around another object, under the influence of gravitation (see satellite). In physics, the path followed by an electron within an atom. The planets follow elliptical orbits around the sun (see ellipse).
notes for orbit
Informally, something is “in orbit” when its actions are controlled by an external agency or force: “The countries of eastern Europe were once in the orbit of the Soviet Union.”
The path followed by a celestial body or artificial satellite as it revolves around another body due to the force of gravity. Orbits are nearly elliptical or circular in shape and are very closely approximated by Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
One complete revolution of such a body. See Note at solar system.
A stable quantum state of an electron (or other particle) in motion around an atomic nucleus. See more at orbital.
Either of two bony hollows in the skull containing the eye and its associated structures.
Verb
To move in an orbit around another body.
To put into an orbit, as a satellite is put into orbit around the Earth.