The phrase "along its orbit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the path or trajectory of an object in space, particularly in relation to celestial bodies like planets or satellites.
Example: "The satellite travels along its orbit, completing a full revolution around the Earth every 90 minutes."
Alternatives: "through its orbit" or "in its orbit".
Its orbit is very elliptical, which causes temperatures on the planet to vary significantly as it proceeds along its orbit.
During this year, the planet was moving past the point along its orbit where it was nearest to the Sun (a perihelic opposition), which made this a particularly close approach to the Earth.
The team plans to begin observing the planet again in late September, when it emerges from behind the sun, and hope to find that the planet has moved along its orbit — confirmation that it is, in fact, a planet.
It starts to vent gas and dust as it heats up - about a month before perihelion, the point at which it is closest to the Sun along its orbit.
Dust particles shed during the comet's slow disintegration over the millennia are distributed along its orbit.
The labels New, 1st Quarter, Full and 3rd Quarter label the positions of the Moon along its orbit.
As it travels along 99percentt of its orbit, 2015 TG387 is too far and too faint to be detected.
The ambitious mission first concocted in the 1970s and approved in 1993, entails not only escorting the comet along part of its orbit, but actually landing on it as well.
Some experts had been concerned that as Pluto receded along its elliptical orbit, most of its air would turn to frost before then, leaving astronomers unable to study weather on Pluto until it next warmed up centuries from now.
The cycle from new Moon to full Moon to new Moon again coincides with increases and decreases in apparent size as the Moon moves along its elliptical orbit.
Also called a "perigee moon," a supermoon occurs when a new or full moon coincides with "lunar perigee," the moon's closest point to Earth along its elliptical orbit.
