use. Orbital decay can occur due to tidal forces for objects below the synchronous orbit for the body they're orbiting. The gravity of the orbiting object...
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asteroid, or comet. A system of two orbiting bodies is modeled by the Two-Body Problem and a system of three orbiting bodies is modeled by the Three-Body...
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it usually applies to planets or asteroids orbiting the Sun, moons orbiting planets, exoplanets orbiting other stars, or binary stars. It may also refer...
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Look up orbital in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orbital may refer to: Atomic orbital Molecular orbital Hybrid orbital Orbit Earth orbit Orbit (anatomy)...
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momentum of the orbit, v {\displaystyle v\,} is the orbital speed of the orbiting body, r {\displaystyle r\,} is the radial distance of the orbiting body from...
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Tiangong-1 station was in orbit at about 355 kilometres (221 mi), until its de-orbiting in 2018. The Chinese Tiangong-2 station was in orbit at about 370 km (230 mi)...
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A geocentric orbit, Earth-centered orbit, or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites. In 1997, NASA estimated...
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around which it orbits), the purple angle ω in the diagram. True anomaly (ν, θ, or f) at epoch (t0) defines the position of the orbiting body along the...
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Orbiting Jupiter is a 2015 young adult fiction novel written by Gary D. Schmidt, the author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and Okay for Now....
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value of 0 is a circular orbit, values between 0 and 1 form an elliptic orbit, 1 is a parabolic escape orbit (or capture orbit), and greater than 1 is...
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plane. Nodal precession, where non-spherical objects cause orbiting objects to change their orbits. Not to be confused with: Axial precession, where the rotation...
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between a reference plane and the orbital plane or axis of direction of the orbiting object. For a satellite orbiting the Earth directly above the Equator...
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over many orbital periods. These orbiting bodies can be a planet and its satellite, a star and any object orbiting it, or components of any binary system...
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orbit. For an object in an eccentric orbit orbiting a much larger body, the length of the orbit decreases with orbital eccentricity e, and is an ellipse...
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properties: Wave-like properties: Electrons do not orbit a nucleus in the manner of a planet orbiting a star, but instead exist as standing waves. Thus...
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orbit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body. Orbit...
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In astrodynamics, an orbit equation defines the path of orbiting body m 2 {\displaystyle m_{2}\,\!} around central body m 1 {\displaystyle m_{1}\,\!}...
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Space telescope (redirect from Orbiting observatory)
Lyman Spitzer in 1946, the first operational telescopes were the American Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, OAO-2 launched in 1968, and the Soviet Orion...
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In Orbit may refer to: In Orbit (September album) In Orbit (Clark Terry album) In Orbit, an album by The Stomachmouths In Orbit, an album by Sun Araw In...
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Apsis (category Orbits)
across an orbit; it also refers simply to the extreme range of an object orbiting a host body (see top figure; see third figure). In orbital mechanics...
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equatorial orbit, and 90° represents a polar orbit. Sun-synchronous orbits are possible around other oblate planets, such as Mars. A satellite orbiting a planet...
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In chemistry, orbital hybridisation (or hybridization) is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals to form new hybrid orbitals (with different energies,...
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Orbit Downloader is a discontinued download manager for Microsoft Windows. Launched in 2006, its developers abandoned it in 2009. In 2013, Orbit Downloader...
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orbit to provide telecommunications services. Near-polar orbiting satellites commonly choose a Sun-synchronous orbit, where each successive orbital pass...
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re-orbiting it to a graveyard orbit only requires about 11 metres per second (36 ft/s). For satellites in geostationary orbit and geosynchronous orbits,...
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molecular physics, Gaussian orbitals (also known as Gaussian type orbitals, GTOs or Gaussians) are functions used as atomic orbitals in the LCAO method for...
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A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GSO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours...
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In mathematics, specifically in the study of dynamical systems, an orbit is a collection of points related by the evolution function of the dynamical...
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Orbital velocity may refer to the following: The orbital angular velocity The orbital speed of a revolving body in a gravitational field. The velocity...
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List of Solar System objects (redirect from List of Solar System objects by orbit)
Interplanetary dust Helium focusing cone, around the Sun Human-made objects orbiting the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Saturn, including active artificial...
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