Sentences with phrase «dimensional orbit of earth»

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While studying at Stanford with John Breakwell, a legendary aeronautical engineer, Farquhar started working out the dynamics of libration points and «halo» orbits — three - dimensional loops around the points — so named because from Earth the orbit would look like a halo around the libration point.

In other words, in a special three - dimensional coordinate system (a, e, and i), each of a thousand scattered points represented an asteroid starting out on a different orbit from some point on Earth's orbit.