Sentences with phrase «slightly out of orbit»
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As the satellite traces out a 1.5 - hour - long orbit, a characteristic rise and fall in the difference between the two applied voltages would indicate that one of the cylinders is falling slightly faster than the other — and signal a violation of the equivalence principle.
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He knew where to look because two other scientists, John Couch Adams of Britain and Frenchman Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, had noticed that the planet Uranus was being pulled slightly out of its normal orbit, and calculated that the effect was being caused by yet another unknown planet.