Orbit
noun
The path in which a planet or an object moves around another object in space.
The moon makes an orbit around Earth every month.
Often appears as...
- satellite orbit
- orbit around
noun
A sphere of activity, interest, or application.
The director worked hard to bring the theater back into the city's cultural orbit.
Often appears as...
- in the orbit
- outside the orbit
noun
The bony cavity in the skull containing the eye.
The punch caused a fracture in his orbit.
Often appears as...
- eye orbit
- orbital socket
verb
To move in a path around a planet or an object in space.
The Earth orbits the sun once every 365.25 days.
Often appears as...
- orbit around
- satellites orbit
noun
The path in which a planet or an object moves around another object in space.
The moon makes an orbit around Earth every month.
Often appears as...
- satellite orbit
- orbit around
noun
A sphere of activity, interest, or application.
The director worked hard to bring the theater back into the city's cultural orbit.
Often appears as...
- in the orbit
- outside the orbit
noun
The bony cavity in the skull containing the eye.
The punch caused a fracture in his orbit.
Often appears as...
- eye orbit
- orbital socket
verb
To move in a path around a planet or an object in space.
The Earth orbits the sun once every 365.25 days.
Often appears as...
- orbit around
- satellites orbit
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Pro Tip 1/3Space Movement
Orbit in space context refers to a regular, repeating path that an object takes.
Comets have long elliptical orbits.
Pro Tip 2/3Central Body
The object being orbited is usually larger, acting as a central point.
The satellite remains in orbit around the much larger Earth.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Round
Orbits can be circular or elliptical, not all orbits are perfect circles.
Mars has an elliptical orbit around the sun.
Pro Tip 1/3Space Movement
Orbit in space context refers to a regular, repeating path that an object takes.
Comets have long elliptical orbits.
Pro Tip 2/3Central Body
The object being orbited is usually larger, acting as a central point.
The satellite remains in orbit around the much larger Earth.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Round
Orbits can be circular or elliptical, not all orbits are perfect circles.
Mars has an elliptical orbit around the sun.
Pro Tip 1/3Space Movement
Orbit in space context refers to a regular, repeating path that an object takes.
Comets have long elliptical orbits.
Pro Tip 2/3Central Body
The object being orbited is usually larger, acting as a central point.
The satellite remains in orbit around the much larger Earth.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Round
Orbits can be circular or elliptical, not all orbits are perfect circles.
Mars has an elliptical orbit around the sun.
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Africa’s Astronomical...
measuring galactic structure and setting the cosmic distance scale and measuring distances cosmologically not only that we can also measure the periodic dimming of stars that occurs when a planet orbits them and the orbit takes it within our line of sight and if we're actually going to observe life around another planet which I think we're on the eve of doing
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What are gravitational...
they had been orbiting each other for millions of years. As they got closer together, they circled each other faster and faster. Finally, they collided and merged into a single, even bigger, black hole. A fraction of a second before their crash, they sent a vibration across the universe at the speed of light.
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Particles and waves: The...
it's easy to explain Bohr's rule for picking out the special orbits. Once you have the idea that electrons behave like waves, you can go look for it. And within a few years, scientists in the US and UK had observed wave behavior from electrons. These days we have a wonderfully clear demonstration of
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Uncovering Jupiter's...
It's a region we're very afraid of because no one had ever been there before. If that doesn't fire just right, you fly right past Jupiter. That's it. You don't go into orbit. You go around the solar system again. By the time you come back to Jupiter, it's decades later. Almost there.
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Fred Jansen: How to land...
In this case, that's not enough. We navigated by looking at landmarks on the comet. We recognized features -- boulders, craters -- and that's how we know where we are respective to the comet. And, of course, it's the first satellite to go beyond the orbit of Jupiter on solar cells.
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What’s the difference...
to explain the nature of planetary orbits. He developed three brilliant laws of planetary motion while he was studying decades of precise astronomical data in an effort to find support for his theory. While his three laws are still in use today,
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Should we be looking for...
and orbits not too close and too far away from its parent star, it could be rocky and warm enough to have oceans and perhaps life. Astronomers discover these potentially habitable planets, and their eyes get big and wide.
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How does your smartphone...
in an orbiting satellite that keeps time to the beat of an atomic clock powered by quantum mechanics. Phew. Let's break that down. First of all, why is it so important to know what time it is on a satellite
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The science of skin...
Therefore, skin color is little more than an adaptive trait for living on a rock that orbits the Sun. It may absorb light, but it certainly does not reflect character.
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Earthrise: The Story of...
anything like that either there isn't that much difference between the earth and the orbit it's only when you get into deeper space that you
Video examples
Africa’s Astronomical...
measuring galactic structure and setting the cosmic distance scale and measuring distances cosmologically not only that we can also measure the periodic dimming of stars that occurs when a planet orbits them and the orbit takes it within our line of sight and if we're actually going to observe life around another planet which I think we're on the eve of doing
Video examples
What are gravitational...
they had been orbiting each other for millions of years. As they got closer together, they circled each other faster and faster. Finally, they collided and merged into a single, even bigger, black hole. A fraction of a second before their crash, they sent a vibration across the universe at the speed of light.
Video examples
Particles and waves: The...
it's easy to explain Bohr's rule for picking out the special orbits. Once you have the idea that electrons behave like waves, you can go look for it. And within a few years, scientists in the US and UK had observed wave behavior from electrons. These days we have a wonderfully clear demonstration of
Video examples
Uncovering Jupiter's...
It's a region we're very afraid of because no one had ever been there before. If that doesn't fire just right, you fly right past Jupiter. That's it. You don't go into orbit. You go around the solar system again. By the time you come back to Jupiter, it's decades later. Almost there.
Video examples
Fred Jansen: How to land...
In this case, that's not enough. We navigated by looking at landmarks on the comet. We recognized features -- boulders, craters -- and that's how we know where we are respective to the comet. And, of course, it's the first satellite to go beyond the orbit of Jupiter on solar cells.
Video examples
What’s the difference...
to explain the nature of planetary orbits. He developed three brilliant laws of planetary motion while he was studying decades of precise astronomical data in an effort to find support for his theory. While his three laws are still in use today,
Video examples
Should we be looking for...
and orbits not too close and too far away from its parent star, it could be rocky and warm enough to have oceans and perhaps life. Astronomers discover these potentially habitable planets, and their eyes get big and wide.
Video examples
How does your smartphone...
in an orbiting satellite that keeps time to the beat of an atomic clock powered by quantum mechanics. Phew. Let's break that down. First of all, why is it so important to know what time it is on a satellite
Video examples
The science of skin...
Therefore, skin color is little more than an adaptive trait for living on a rock that orbits the Sun. It may absorb light, but it certainly does not reflect character.
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Earthrise: The Story of...
anything like that either there isn't that much difference between the earth and the orbit it's only when you get into deeper space that you
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Harper Reed
American Businessman
We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's a shirt you might like,' and I open it on my mobile phone, I'm not going to pull out my credit card and wallet. We thought, 'How does someone do this? An e-mail to yourself, or you try to remember?
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James Comey
American Public Servant
For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.
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Linda M. Godwin
American Astronaut
It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.
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Rusty Schweickart
American Astronaut
It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth's gravity.
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Buzz Aldrin
American Astronaut
I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.
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Vivek Agnihotri
Indian Director
Chocolate' is an orbit in which seven different characters keep moving from one place to another to reveal a bigger drama. It's about how ordinary people get stuck in extraordinary situations.
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Ellen Ochoa
American Astronaut
The ISS operates as the 'anchor customer' in low earth orbit to support new commercial space services, including delivery of cargo and, before long, crew transportation services.
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Sally Ride
American Astronaut
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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Robert Crippen
American Astronaut
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
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Harper Reed
American Businessman
We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's a shirt you might like,' and I open it on my mobile phone, I'm not going to pull out my credit card and wallet. We thought, 'How does someone do this? An e-mail to yourself, or you try to remember?
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James Comey
American Public Servant
For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.
Quote examples
Linda M. Godwin
American Astronaut
It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there.
Quote examples
Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Quote examples
Rusty Schweickart
American Astronaut
It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth's gravity.
Quote examples
Buzz Aldrin
American Astronaut
I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.
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Vivek Agnihotri
Indian Director
Chocolate' is an orbit in which seven different characters keep moving from one place to another to reveal a bigger drama. It's about how ordinary people get stuck in extraordinary situations.
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Ellen Ochoa
American Astronaut
The ISS operates as the 'anchor customer' in low earth orbit to support new commercial space services, including delivery of cargo and, before long, crew transportation services.
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Sally Ride
American Astronaut
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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Robert Crippen
American Astronaut
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
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