Search results for "Eccentricity (orbit)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- brightness varies over the course of its orbit, more so than the brightness ... During its orbit, the farthest point of Mars from Earth is more than ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
