Sentence examples for an oval orbit from inspiring English sources

North Korea has claimed it successfully placed a satellite into an oval orbit around the earth for peaceful scientific purposes, including the broadcast of "immortal revolutionary hymns" in honor of its paramount ruler, Kim Jong Il, and his father, Kim Il Sung, who died in 1994.

Perturbations would eject one such planet from the system, leaving the other behind in an oval orbit.

The average distance of the moon, which keeps an imperfect 27-day oval orbit, is 238,855 miles.

Kepler could have hammered out a patchwork equation that would have represented the oval orbit of Mars.

Earth, in its oval orbit, is closer to the Sun today than on any other day of the year".

The strange events will happen because of the moon's oval orbit, which means that at some times it is closer to the Earth.

Quaoar is about 42 times more distant from the sun than Earth, although part of Pluto's oval orbit lies farther from the sun than Quaoar.

In the X Mini, an oval rotor orbits a rounded triangular housing, creating three combustion chambers.

Messenger is to circle Mercury for one Earth year in an oval-shaped orbit that takes it 124 miles above the surface at the nearest point and 9,420 miles out at the farthest.

Discovery of a partial skull of Sivapithecus confirmed a number of shared derived features with the orangutan genus Pongo (Fig. 5): narrow, rib-like brow rims; tall, oval orbits; eyes placed very close together; and a snout and cheekbones that angle upward relative to the plane of the eyes (Ward 1997b; Ward and Brown 1986; Ward and Pilbeam 1983).

The most prominent discrepancies included a more rectangular shape of the orbit, an oval shaped eyeball and a different position of the canthi.