Sentences with phrase «elliptical path»

It entered orbit, as planned, on a highly elliptical path that takes it from between 230 and 310 km above the surface to around 98 000 km every 4.2 days.

TESS is headed for an orbit around Earth that no spacecraft has ever occupied — a highly elliptical path in which the satellite will circle the planet twice for every orbit the moon completes.

In Kepler's final planetary model, he described planetary orbits as following elliptical paths with the Sun at a focal point of the ellipse.

We knew Pluto was a misfit — smallish, distant, and orbiting on a weird elliptical path — but we had no doubt it was part of the family.

The pulse also knocked the electron into a highly elliptical path around the nucleus, rather like a comet that orbits the Sun but spends most of its time far outside the Solar System.

It has various elliptical paths that can help in lowering the strain by making use of a smooth and large drive pulley.

Many of the newfound worlds follow highly elliptical paths that take them close to and then far away from their star, quite unlike the nearly circular orbits typical in our solar system.

Instead, Plait wrote in a post for SyFy, it's «going near Mars,» specifically in what's called a Hohmann transfer orbit, a highly elliptical path that goes out to Mars orbit and back to Earth orbit on a nearly endless loop - hence the «billion year» detail from Musk.

It's going near Mars,» Plait wrote, specifically in what's called a Hohmann transfer orbit: an elliptical path that goes out to the orbit of Mars and back to Earth orbit on a near - endless loop (hence the «billion years or so» detail from Musk).

Only the planet's rough orbit is known, not the precise location of the planet on that elliptical path.

The Earth orbits the sun on an elliptical path, and the long axis of this path shifts position over time.

[1] Like any object orbiting the Sun, 288P travels along an elliptical path, bringing it closer and further away to the Sun during the course of one orbit.

Earth might get drawn into an elliptical path that would cause extreme climate swings, or it might be ejected from the solar system and go hurtling to a frigid fate in deep space.

The velocity is not constant, though, because Earth follows an elliptical path and accelerates as it moves closer to the sun.

The greater the velocity of the pendulum (for instance, during midflight), the greater the three - dimensionality experienced, hence its elliptical path in 3 - D.

The star revolves once every 550,000 years on an elliptical path.

The object loops around the sun on a highly elliptical path that takes more than 1,100 Earth years to complete; it's currently about 92 astronomical units (AU) from the sun but comes as close as 38 AU and gets as far away as 180 AU.

«Clack, clack, clack» goes a paper ream over and over through its elliptical paths.

Maybe the elliptical path of the earth around the sun is correcting itself and is bringing the temperature back to where it was 400,000 years ago.