Sentences with phrase «elliptical orbit around the moon»
Chandrayaan 1 entered into an elliptical orbit around the moon on Saturday, 17 days after blasting off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
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Newton's theory of gravitation predicted that the apogee (most distant point) of the moon's elliptical orbit around the earth should move forward 11/2 ° each revolution.
Around some of those stars, planets and their moons trace elliptical orbits.
MAVEN, with an elliptical orbit around Mars, has an orbit that crosses those of other spacecraft and the moon Phobos many times over the course of a year.