Sentences with phrase «orbit in synchrony»

Resonant Kuiper Belt Objects orbit in synchrony with Neptune.

Not exact matches

Because of the two - thirds synchrony between Mercury's rotation period and its orbit, the sun does some pretty odd tricks in the sky.

For many years it was thought that Mercury's rotation was tidally locked to be in synchrony with the Sun, such that it rotated once for each orbit, keeping the same face directed toward the Sun at all times — analogous to the manner in which the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth.