Sentences with phrase «point during their orbit»

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Charting that jitter during 27 separate Hubble pointings let the researchers determine the geometry of the planet's orbit.

The Kepler spacecraft trails Earth as it orbits the sun and is normally pointed away from Earth during the K2 mission.

This theory stipulates that changes in Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun (eccentricity), changes in the direction in which our axis points (precession) and changes in the tilt of the earth itself (obliquity)-- known as Milankovitch Cycles — should contribute to changes in climate because of the different amounts of solar insolation received during these changes.