Sentence examples for orbit close from inspiring English sources

Everyone knew their dull glow could only warm planets that happened to orbit close by.

The lasers would sit on board satellites in orbit close to the cloud.Shining a laser at something exerts two forces on it.

The military always keeps extra GPS satellites in space, hibernating in orbit close to active satellites, but ready to be called from standby status should an operating satellite fail or fall out of position.

Once a preliminary list of names is compiled, she said, she and Mr. Romney will look for insight from within their own orbit —close friends, donors with business expertise and other politicians.

So far Kepler has studied more than 150,000 stars and identified more than 3,000 candidate planets, but many of these are "gas giants", similar to Jupiter, that orbit close to their parent stars.

He joyfully reported on the fourth orbit that the sphere was in orbit close enough for its lights to have stayed with him "all through the night last night".

Those satellites orbit closer to Earth than the geostationary satellites.

Since these orbit closer to the earth than geostationary satellites, they will provide even more detail.

With age, it is natural for high-fliers to orbit closer to ground level.

For example, if an electron jumps one orbit closer to the nucleus, it must emit energy equal to the difference of the energies of the two orbits.

There could be thousands of asteroids that orbit closer to the sun than the Earth, approaching our planet only occasionally and always from "out of the sun".