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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Orbiting Human Circus". Orbitinghumancircus.com. Retrieved 2017-03-15. Wacek, Michele Pariza (July 2020). Olsher, Steve (ed.). "The Orbiting Human...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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. 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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  • 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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    zero. This orbit allows for rapid revisit times (for a single orbiting spacecraft) of near equatorial ground sites. Prograde orbit: An orbit that is in...
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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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  • synchronous orbit is an orbit in which an orbiting body (usually a satellite) has a period equal to the average rotational period of the body being orbited (usually...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Space debris (redirect from Storage orbit)
    launched in 1966 orbiting Earth and the Sun. At least eight Delta rockets have contributed orbital debris in the Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit environment...
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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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  • Mark Wainwright (born 15 December 1956), known professionally as William Orbit, is an English musician and record producer who has sold 200 million recordings...
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    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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