Search results for "Eccentricity (orbit)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- | Eccentricity | 0.047 167 71 |- | Perihelion | 2,735,555,035 km18.286 055 96 AU |- | Aphelion | 3,006,389,405 km20.096 471 90 AU |- ...3 KB (372 words) - 15:19, 8 August 2022
- can be expressed by a number called the eccentricity of the ellipse, conventionally ... the eccentricity is :\varepsilon = \sqrt{1 - \frac{b^2}{a^2}}. ...10 KB (1,658 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- When a celestial object is in an elliptical orbit around another body ... when referring to the spacecraft's orbit around the Moon. ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes around another ... interplanetary dusts, and space debris orbit the central star in elliptical ...29 KB (4,580 words) - 01:05, 18 November 2022
- is an object that has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects ... The first fictional depiction of a satellite being launched into orbit ...35 KB (4,993 words) - 00:11, 8 January 2024
- gravity where two or more celestial bodies orbit each other. When a moon orbits ... r1 is essentially the semi-major axis of the first body's orbit ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- as a conic section with an eccentricity of 1. As a consequence ... much more common. In fact, the parabolic orbit is the borderline case between ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- effects during periods of high orbital eccentricity. It is also possible that ... The orbit of Mercury is the most eccentric of the major planets, with ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- The material that would have been placed in orbit around the central body is ... No "moons of moons" (natural satellites that orbit the natural ...19 KB (2,647 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- :(a) is in orbit around the sun; :(b) has sufficient mass for its self ... :(c) has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit; ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- such as spectroscopy. If binaries happen to orbit in a plane containing our ... the first orbit of a binary star, however, was not computed until ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit. At any given time, regardless ... distance to the Sun due to its elliptical orbit. (Pidwirny PhysicalGeography ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 17:37, 25 January 2023
- of rock and ice. It has an eccentric orbit that is highly inclined with ... after analyzing perturbations in the orbit of Uranus. Theorizing the ...42 KB (6,097 words) - 17:02, 26 September 2023
- which he needed when computing the eccentricity of the orbits of the Moon ... ==== Orbit of the Moon ==== It had been known for a long time that ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- to the Sun. Main-belt comets are those that orbit within the asteroid belt ... comet on a long, elliptical or parabolic orbit around the Sun. ...28 KB (4,322 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- to the plane of the Earth's orbit and this axis maintains a ... Earth from the Sun due to the orbital eccentricity of the Earth's orbit ...25 KB (3,968 words) - 19:48, 28 August 2023
- long to rotate about its axis as it does to orbit the Earth—a phenomenon ... overall sense, because the Moon's orbit has definite eccentricity ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- methane); changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun known as Milankovitch ... due to variations of the Earth's orbit. This comparatively insignificant ...38 KB (5,850 words) - 17:11, 10 February 2024
- sized bodies have been found in close orbit about their primary, disrupting ... amount of energy radiated toward bodies in orbit. These are considered poor ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- 106 million kilometers, and completes an orbit every 224.7 days. Although ... A curious aspect of Venus' orbit and rotation periods is that ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023