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The model universally accepted was Kepler's heliocentric solar system with elliptical orbits.
The planet, more than twice the size of Jupiter, orbits two stars, a pulsar and a white dwarf that linked together about a billion years ago.
He therefore accepted Kepler's theory of elliptical orbits for the planets and tested Kepler's laws by direct observation.
Multiple collisions involving red giants and other stars might yield the random orbits her team has observed.
For one thing, astronomers discovered the Kuiper belt, a teeming ensemble of miniature worlds within which Pluto orbits.
The lacrimal bones are thin bones that form the anterior portion of the medial walls of the individual orbits.
Spacecraft orbiting Earth can be found in several different types of orbits based on their altitude and orientation.
After climbing into space on a single launcher, the satellites will adopt orbits passing over the Earth's poles.
He's based this idea on a study of the angle, or inclination, of asteroid orbits.
Static information such as semi-major axis of ellipse, apogee and perigee altitudes, and anomalistic and nodal periods of satellite orbits.
This creates increased atmospheric drag on spacecraft in low orbits, shortening their orbital lifetime.
Before I do this, I have to revisit science concepts and make sure I understand orbits, rotations, revolutions and seasons.
Simple accounts of the Solar System often start by saying that the Earth orbits the Sun, and as it does so the Moon revolves around the Earth.
Discovery's journey, which began with a lift-off on July 26, spanned 219 orbits of Earth and 5.8 million miles.
In contrast, Jupiter-family comets tend to have predictable, well-determined orbits with short periods and low inclinations.
The first problem Galileo attacked at Florence was to determine orbits and periods for Jupiter's four satellites.
Most of the larger asteroids and comets are also in stable orbits around the sun.
Ceres was initially considered to be a planet until other asteroids with similar orbits were found.
As time goes by, astronomers have found planets in larger and larger orbits.
As the moon orbits the spinning earth, there is a cycle of two high tides and two low tides about every 25 hours.
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The relatively low velocity needed to maintain vehicles in circumlunar orbits, made its danger to such vehicles small.
The orbits of Mercury and Mars have an appearance of ellipticity because the sun does not occupy the central point in the diagram.
White curved line painted across forehead, and dots below outer ends thereof, on glabella, and outside orbits.
The dorsal and ventral boundaries of the orbits are respectively formed by the prominent supra-orbital and suborbital ridges.
The sunken orbits of the fat man turned from one to another, his jowly cheeks flapping.
To her I mean constraint, uprooting, exile, that unusualness which throws simple people out of their orbits.
In the Uranian system the widest interval between adjacent orbits is just within the orbit of the bright satellite, Titania.
In not too many orbits, that eccentricity in our orbit might pull us into the Van Allen belt.
In the dark patches of the orbits the eyeballs glimmered piercingly.
So long as the planets shall continue to move in their orbits, the BATTLE OF THE SAND-BELT will not perish out of the memories of men.
In the same way the seven other planets are held to their orbits.
How they must intersect, cross and intermingle each other's orbits!
And he did it, with elliptic orbits having the sun in a focus of each.
A like question may be asked respecting the inclinations of the orbits.
The head is flat on the summit and narrow between the orbits.
We must bear in mind that this constitutes only a small sample of all cometary orbits.
He was a shy, quiet, dark person, with a pale, closely-shav en face, agreeably animated by large black eyes, set deep in their orbits.
The pull of gravity disturbs the planets, elongating their initially circular orbits, astronomers theorize.
Their steady pull elongates the orbits of asteroids causing them to intersect with the orbits of the inner planets.
At about 527,000 kilometres from Saturn, Rhea orbits inside the planet's magnetic field.
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