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Meanings of elliptical orbit in English

Russian
эллиптическая орбита
Portuguese
órbita elíptica
Spanish
orbita elíptica
Catalan
òrbita altament el·líptica
Wikidata

Kepler's orbit with an eccentricity of less than 1.

        эллиптическая орбита
        Usage of elliptical orbit in English
        1
        It will simply become a space station, moving in a ten-hour elliptical orbit.
        The Fountains of Paradise
        2
        A nice elliptical orbit, apogee a thousand odd miles, perigee, sixty-seventy-perhaps
        Far from Home
        3
        We may fall forever in an elliptical orbit, lamented the puppeteer.
        Ringworld
        4
        The probe's unique, elliptical orbit will support the first global picture of Mars' weather.
        The South African
        5
        Our neighbour has an elliptical orbit, which means its distance from us frequently changes.
        The South African
        6
        The seasons are very asymmetric because of Pluto's elliptical orbit.
        Wired
        7
        Consciousness was something in wide elliptical orbit around my head.
        Altered carbon
        8
        They're in an elliptical orbit, ninety-one thousand kilometres by one hundred and seventy thousand four-degree inclination.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        9
        The movement of the earth, for instance, is not, strictly speaking, performed in an elliptical orbit.
        Great Astronomers
        10
        It's a moon that appears bigger to us, because again, the moon follows an elliptical orbit.
        Wired
        11
        The moon moves around the earth in an elliptical orbit that takes about 29 days to complete.
        News.com.au
        12
        It was then put in an elliptical orbit, where it was due to remain for some 12 hours.
        The Irish Times
        13
        By describing this elliptical orbit the projectile was going to gravitate eternally round the moon like a sub-satellite.
        The Moon-Voyage
        14
        A GTO is an elliptical orbit used to transfer between two circular orbits of different radii in the same plane.
        The South African
        15
        It's now in an elliptical orbit around the sun, and will eventually pass near Mars as part of its journey.
        The South African
        16
        Instead of losing itself in interplanetary space, it is probable that the projectile will describe an elliptical orbit around the moon.
        From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
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        Translations for elliptical orbit
        Elliptical orbit through the time
        Elliptical orbit across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
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