Sentence examples for more circular orbit from inspiring English sources

The craft will gradually sink into a more circular orbit during the next 6 months before the instruments will begin gathering data.

It is known that in the past, Mars has had a much more circular orbit than it does currently.

On March 30, 2006, MRO began the process of aerobraking, a three-step procedure that cuts in half the fuel needed to achieve a lower, more circular orbit with a shorter period.

Since the impact that created the moons of Haumea is thought to have occurred in the early history of the Solar System, over the following billions of years it should have been tidally damped into a more circular orbit.

Planets with low eccentricities have more circular orbits, whereas planets with high eccentricities have more elliptical orbits.

Armed with those details, Rosetta will then move closer, to within 30km of the surface, and settle into a more conventional circular orbit.

From their observations, Dr. Marcy said, the Ceti planet travels an extremely lopsided orbit, compared with the more neatly circular orbits of the other newly discovered planet and all the members of the solar system.

The sun and its retinue condensed from a rotating disc of gas and dust, and anything produced this way should have ended up in a more-or-less circular orbit, such as those the modern planets follow.One idea is that the two eccentrics were kicked into their orbits by a close encounter with Neptune (which is how the Kuiper belt is thought to have been created).

However, we also find that the data are equally well described by a blackbody model for the planet with Tp=2042±50 K. Finally, we measure a secondary eclipse timing offset of 0.3±1.3 minutes from the predicted mid-eclipse time, which constrains e=0.0072+0.0700−0.0064 when combined with radial velocity data and is more consistent with a circular orbit.

Hot Jupiters' orbits will become more circular over time, however the presence of other planets in the system on eccentric orbits, even ones as small as Earth and as far away as the habitable zone, can continue to maintain the eccentricity of the Hot Jupiter so that the length of time for tidal circularization can be billions instead of millions of years.

The process from capture to circular orbit may have taken more than one billion years, during which time the enormous tidal deformations experienced by Triton most likely melted its entire interior.