• Thumbnail for Orbit@home
    orbit@home was a BOINC-based volunteer computing project of the Planetary Science Institute. It uses the "Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis"...
    2 KB (221 words) - 22:19, 6 November 2022
  • 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...
    3 KB (448 words) - 21:54, 1 January 2025
  • Mark Wainwright (born 15 December 1956), known professionally as William Orbit, is an English musician and record producer who has sold 200 million recordings...
    32 KB (2,181 words) - 23:19, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
    (a type of distributed computing). Developed originally to support SETI@home, it became the platform for many other applications in areas as diverse as...
    54 KB (3,203 words) - 14:28, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of volunteer computing projects
    2012-01-29. "Project Stopped | orbit@home". 2013-08-02. Archived from the original on 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2020-03-26. "Orbit@home". 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-13...
    105 KB (4,267 words) - 06:11, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Asteroid impact avoidance
    "Project Stopped". Orbit.psi.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2013-10-29. "orbit@home is upgrading!". Orbit.psi.edu. Archived from...
    121 KB (13,357 words) - 06:44, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Tunguska event
    impact. The team suspected that 2005 NB56's orbit likely fits with the Tunguska object's modelled orbit, even with the effects of weak non-gravitational...
    74 KB (8,865 words) - 15:19, 24 December 2024
  • 2007 Orbit Bexley and Thanet Community were merged to form Orbit South. Orbit is active in promoting shared ownership as well as providing homes for affordable...
    4 KB (429 words) - 09:36, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Near-Earth object
    A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun...
    162 KB (16,282 words) - 09:18, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Jupiter
    Jupiter (redirect from Jovian orbit)
    Earth, and a tenth that of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm), with an orbital period of 11.86 years. It is the third-brightest...
    174 KB (16,453 words) - 14:26, 19 December 2024
  • A parking orbit is a temporary orbit used during the launch of a spacecraft. A launch vehicle follows a trajectory to the parking orbit, then coasts for...
    8 KB (888 words) - 20:27, 23 October 2024
  • Orbiter is a space flight simulator program developed to simulate spaceflight using realistic Newtonian physics. The simulator was released on 27 November...
    19 KB (1,952 words) - 22:19, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orbital (band)
    Orbital are an English electronic music duo from Otford, Kent, England, consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. The band's name is taken from Greater...
    36 KB (3,616 words) - 19:35, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mars Orbiter Mission
    Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), was a space probe orbiting Mars since...
    106 KB (9,082 words) - 09:20, 23 December 2024
  • Cartoon Orbit was an online gaming network created by Turner Online for CartoonNetwork.com that launched in November 2000 to promote its shows and partners...
    26 KB (3,037 words) - 05:03, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mercury (planet)
    (58.65 Earth days) are in a 3:2 ratio. This relationship is called spin–orbit resonance, and sidereal here means "relative to the stars". Consequently...
    155 KB (15,927 words) - 20:20, 5 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lunar orbit rendezvous
    Lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) is a process for landing humans on the Moon and returning them to Earth. It was utilized for the Apollo program missions...
    20 KB (2,303 words) - 00:52, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kessler syndrome
    It describes a situation in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) becomes so high due to space pollution that collisions between these...
    39 KB (4,433 words) - 13:57, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Starlink
    constellation consists of over 7,000 mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) that communicate with designated ground transceivers. Nearly 12,000 satellites...
    281 KB (23,831 words) - 09:59, 1 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Space debris
    Space debris (redirect from Storage orbit)
    debris) are defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth orbit – which no longer serve a useful function. These include derelict spacecraft...
    171 KB (17,389 words) - 07:38, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Orbit (mascot)
    Orbit is the name given to Major League Baseball's Houston Astros mascot, a lime-green alien wearing an Astros jersey with antennae extending into baseballs...
    6 KB (652 words) - 19:38, 1 January 2025
  • Orbit was a series of anthologies of new science fiction edited by Damon Knight, often featuring work by such writers as Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ, R. A...
    30 KB (4,054 words) - 18:42, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Retrograde and prograde motion
    Retrograde motion in astronomy is, in general, orbital or rotational motion of an object in the direction opposite the rotation of its primary, that is...
    40 KB (4,679 words) - 18:47, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lagrange point
    as orbit corrections, and hence fuel requirements, needed to maintain the desired orbit are kept at a minimum. For any combination of two orbital bodies...
    51 KB (5,703 words) - 01:24, 30 October 2024
  • Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and...
    44 KB (4,494 words) - 04:55, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
    became the first rocket to land propulsively after delivering a payload into orbit. This reusability results in significantly reduced launch costs, as the...
    505 KB (20,562 words) - 23:53, 6 January 2025
  • Project Orbiter was a proposed United States spacecraft, an early competitor to Project Vanguard. It was jointly run by the United States Army and United...
    6 KB (717 words) - 18:50, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space Shuttle orbiter
    The Space Shuttle orbiter is the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the discontinued...
    57 KB (5,877 words) - 05:18, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for C/2010 X1 (Elenin)
    2011-04-03. Kazuo Kinoshita (2011-02-26). "C/2010 X1 (Elenin)". Comet Orbit Home Page. Archived from the original on 2011-03-13. Retrieved 2011-03-08....
    25 KB (2,120 words) - 23:11, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Planet Nine
    Planet Nine (section Orbit)
    the peculiar clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs), bodies beyond Neptune that orbit the Sun at distances averaging...
    182 KB (19,432 words) - 12:38, 6 January 2025