Sentences with phrase «most circular orbit»
It has the most circular orbit of all the planets in the Solar System, with an eccentricity of less than one percent.
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The question is whether the bodies were asteroids captured intact by Mars gravity or whether the tiny satellites formed from an equatorial disk of debris, as is most consistent with their nearly circular and co-planar orbits.
Although the earth's orbit around the Sun is almost circular, most comets travel in orbits that are highly elongated ellipses.
Based on the Gemini spectra of the center of NGC 1600, most stars inside the sphere of influence of the black hole — a region about 3,000 light - years in radius — are traveling on circular orbits around the black hole, with very few moving radially inward or outward.
The above image shows the relatively circular orbits of most solar system planets, and the the highly elliptical orbit of Pluto.
Most scientific satellites and many weather satellites are in a nearly circular, low Earth orbit.