Sentences with phrase «near circular orbit»
My understanding is that we are currently in a near circular orbit.
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It moves around Star A at an average distance of less than 0.05 AUs (a semi-major axis well within Mercury's orbital distance) in a near circular orbit (e = 0.23 + / - 0.015) that takes 3.312 days to complete.
Not exact matches
It is one of six planets discovered around this star, all of which have near - circular orbits.
NASA's Mars Odyssey and MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) travel near - circular orbits.
Iridium's satellites (pdf) operate in near - circular low Earth orbits (LEO) about 780 kilometers above the surface, traveling at about 27,000 kilometers per hour and circling the planet in about 100 minutes.
A portion of the dwarf planet Pluto's highly eccentric orbit brings it nearer to the Sun than Neptune, which has a nearly circular orbit.
We present the discovery of Kepler - 421b, a Uranus - sized exoplanet transiting a G9 / K0 dwarf once every 704.2 days in a near - circular orbit.
The Trace Gas Orbiter has reached its final orbit after a year of «aerobraking» that ended in February.This exciting operation saw the craft skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, using drag on its solar wings to transform its initial highly elliptical four - day orbit of about 200 x 98 000 km into the final, much lower and near - circular path at about 400 km.
The Kuiper Belt — a doughnut - shaped region 30 — 50 AU from the Sun — contains about 70 % of all TNOs — those with nearly circular orbits near the plane of the ecliptic.