Sentence examples for orbital path from inspiring English sources

Fig. 3 a Schematic view of orbital path of the Akatsuki orbiter around Venus and general observing plan during the ~ 10.5-day orbit.

These Lagrangian points lie on the planet's orbital path, a sixth of an orbit ahead of it and a sixth of an orbit behind.

In an election at the union's triennial meeting, in Prague, the group voted to define a planet as an object that was round, orbited the Sun, and had cleared everything else out of its orbital path.

Titan's orbital path and tilted axis make for seasons that last for seven Earth years.

Because the asteroid was tracked for only 10 days, its orbital path is uncertain.

The orbital path, elliptical or circular, thus represents a balance between gravity and inertia.

Two lots of charts marking the orbital paths of Apollo 14 over the Earth and moon sold for $112 apiece.

Nearby, Mr. O'Gara, back in action, explained the orbital paths of Mars and the Earth to a rapt audience of two, drawing ellipses in the air with a forefinger.

Compared with geostationary satellites that remained at a fixed location some 22,300 miles above the equator, low-earth satellites use various orbital paths to buzz around the globe at altitudes of 500 to 600 miles.

These occasional efforts have confirmed that much more debris is slinging around the planet, but they have not yet resulted in a detailed map showing the orbital paths of the objects, Mr. Ailor said.

To confirm the orbits, the astronomers checked Hubble images of Pluto and Charon made in 2002 for surface-mapping studies and found faint but definite indications of two objects moving along the orbital paths calculated from the 2005 images.