Sentence examples for orbital distance from inspiring English sources

Farout, by comparison, orbits at three times Pluto's orbital distance.

It has six planets, and the five innermost planets are in orbits that fall well within the orbital distance between Mercury and the Sun.

The exoplanet orbits its small, faint star at an orbital distance of about three times Earth's distance from the sun, and therefore it is probably as cold as Pluto is.

For example, Kepler-78b sprints around its host in about 8.5 hours, orbiting its star at about 1% Earth's orbital distance.

The spacecraft will subsequently reduce its orbital distance to 4,400 km for its second observational orbit ("survey") for three weeks, then down to 1,470 km ("HAMO") for two months and then down to its final orbit at 375 km ("LAMO") for at least three months.

To reach their estimate, the scientists made an educated guess about how many of these stars actually have planets orbiting them, based on information already known about giant planets, such as orbital distance and size.

This means that yes, the difference between the average orbital distance of Mars from the Sun to the average orbital distance of Earth from the Sun is greater (about 78 million km) than the difference between the Earth's average orbital distance from the Sun to Venus' average orbital distance from the Sun (41 million km).

We will reach the orbital distance for REXIS to begin its science operations this coming June.

Its mean orbital distance is about 354,800 km (220,500 miles) from the planet.

At these orbital distances, a Kirkwood gap occurs as they are swept into other orbits.

Currently, we're still pretty far from the asteroid and slowly advancing to lower orbital distances.