Sentence examples for change the orbit from inspiring English sources
Another method would involve striking it with missiles or employing a satellite that used gravitational pull to change the orbit.
In addition, Krueger, principal investigator for a U.S. sensor that mapped ozone worldwide, says NASA expects to change the orbit of one of its ozone-mapping satellites so it can "take over the role of global [ozone] monitoring".
But only the lucky binaries seem to have planets that orbit them; some stellar binaries that lack orbiting bodies have a different third party—a distant star that's so massive, its gravitational fluxes actually change the orbit of the stellar binary, causing the two stars to shrink together in a process called orbital decay.
One proposal, originally made a decade ago by the American armed forces, would be to use ground-based lasers to change the orbits of pieces between 1cm and 10cm across by vaporising parts of their surfaces.
This corresponds to a place where the gravitational pulls of Mars and Jupiter have conspired to change the orbits of any asteroids much faster than the Yarkovsky effect could manage alone.
The focus of the paper is on the dynamic behavior of the tethered system in the final phase of the de-orbiting mission, when a powerful apogee motor is used to change the debris orbit.
Changing the amount of heat would change the force, affecting the orbit.
T. J.'s loneliness advances into justified paranoia when he learns that a renegade secretary of education -- Prickly calls him "a rogue teacher" -- plans to change the Earth's orbit and eliminate summer vacation forever.
Simulation results show that the tethered solar sail can efficiently change the asteroid's orbit.
That difference would change the way matter orbits, allowing it to approach closer to the black hole's center before disappearing forever into its gravitational embrace.
In some cases the gravitational perturbations from Jupiter were sufficient to change the previously elliptical orbits of the comets to hyperbolic, ejecting them from the solar system and sending them into interstellar space.
