Sentence examples for whose orbit from inspiring English sources

Other theories indicate that a gap can also be cleared in a ring region that is in orbital resonance with a moon whose orbit is substantially internal or external to the ring.

When first proposed, the category (then named "pluton") defined members as planets whose orbital period around the Sun was more than 200 Julian years, and whose orbit was more highly inclined and more elliptical than a traditional planetary orbit.

Supposing we lived on a planet whose orbit round its sun took 5,000 years.

Astronomers generally agree that Pluto, whose orbit lies partially in the Kuiper belt, is one of its larger members.

At first, the pair envisaged a planet whose orbit encircled Sedna and the aligned objects, as a shepherd might its flock.

As of today, astronomers have confirmed the existence of 873 exoplanets — planets whose orbit starts outside of our solar system — with thousands more candidates requiring follow-up observations.

However, that idea could not explain comets whose orbits were growing, not shrinking.

Astronomers believe they have pinpointed all large asteroids whose orbits bring them close to Earth.

They revolve around one another like planets whose orbits never intersect.

Earth impact hazard, the danger of collision posed by astronomical small bodies whose orbits around the Sun carry them near Earth.

In 1992 America's Congress suggested that NASA, that country's space agency, begin surveying asteroids whose orbits might make them a threat.