orbiting
绕行,绕行的,绕行中的,绕行中
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Definitions
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- : the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- : the usual course of one's life or range of one's activities.
- : the sphere of power or influence, as of a nation or person: a small nation in the Russian orbit.
- : Physics. the path traced by an electron revolving around the nucleus of an atom.
- : an orb or sphere.
- : Anatomy. the bony cavity of the skull that contains the eye; eye socket.the eye.
- : Zoology. the part surrounding the eye of a bird or insect.
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- : to move or travel around in an orbital or elliptical path: The earth orbits the sun once every 365.25 days.
- : to send into orbit, as a satellite.
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“This mission represents the initiation of a Dragon in orbit continuously, knocking on wood,” Shotwell said, according to The Verge.
The more planets a system has, the more circular their orbits, no matter where you look or what kind of star they orbit.
Axiom Space has signed three private astronauts to join former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría on Ax-1, the first private mission into orbit and to the International Space Station.
These were giants like Jupiter, hotter than Venus, tearing around their suns inside the orbit of Mercury.
Most studies figure this out by gauging the distance of an exoplanet from its host star and whether its orbit is not too close and not too far—the so-called Goldilocks zone.
The authors of the new study used data from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn to measure the libration of Mimas.
Exoplanet astronomy—the search for planets orbiting other stars—has two major goals.
Obviously this method is most useful for very massive planets orbiting close to the host star.
As we learn about exoplanets orbiting distant stars, those two basic categories seem to hold.
Imagine, though, a Saturn-mass exoplanet with a Titan-sized moon orbiting its star within the habitable zone.
Dane rode out the orbiting in the Com-tech's seat, listening in for the first warning of danger—that they had been detected.
The ship swung down into the cloud layer; floating wisps of gray vapor streamed past the Cavour.