Sentence examples for orbit distance from inspiring English sources
New Horizons is the fastest spacecraft ever launched, reaching lunar orbit distance in just nine hours and passing Jupiter 13 months later.
It is surrounded by ejected shells of gas that extend out to 1400 AU (1 AU = Earth's orbit distance from the sun), with a plasma gas shell extending to 200 AU.
Once the enormous satellite of Pluto was discovered in 1978 it was possible to figure out the mass of Pluto from the period and orbit distance of its moon.
"We have seen all of Eros from a variety of orbit distances, taken millions of measurements, and we've answered the biggest questions from when the mission began," he said.
Because of Mars's relatively elongated orbit, the distance between Mars and the Sun varies from 206.6 million to 249.2 million km (128.4 million to 154.8 million miles).
What is significant about this one is that it moves in a nearly circular orbit some distance from a parent star that is similar to the sun, without any other big planets in closer orbits.
Due to the elliptical nature of the lunar orbit, the distance between the Earth and the Moon is not constant, and on the 28th the Moon will be at perigee – its closest point to the Earth in 2015.
We show that the feasibility of the mission depends on the existence of an intermediate asteroid with small minimum orbit interception distance (MOID) with the NEA.
The initial shortlist of targets is based on the Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance (MOID) between the orbit of the asteroids in the database and the initial orbit of the spacecraft traversing the main belt.
Unlike Cassini, which ended up a new crater on Saturn's surface (a sudden but glorious end), Kepler will simply fall into an Earth-like orbit some distance behind its home planet, likely to remain stable (barring the extraordinarily unlikely possibility of a cosmic debris strike) for many years to come.
From this position change, and the known size of the Earth's orbit, the distance to the star could be estimated.
