Meanings of elliptical orbits in English

To a first approximation, planets revolve round their stars in elliptical orbits.

First, the Covenant warships had extremely regular elliptical orbits about Reach.

Now in elliptical orbits attracting bodies always occupy one of the foci of the ellipsis.

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The planets all move in elliptical orbits, nearly circular.

The shadow squares may hold matching stable elliptical orbits.

Because of the two planets' elliptical orbits, these close approaches vary in their distance each time.

Mercury and Mars, with their more elliptical orbits had a much greater range of notes to emit.

There was a lot of metallic wreckage, most of it in highly eccentric elliptical orbits, and all of it radioactive.

So instead of the planets themselves, it's actually their planet-moon barycenters that trace the Keplerian elliptical orbits around the Sun.

You know. Scott crossed his eyes, flopped out his tongue, and twirled his index fingers in large elliptical orbits around his ears.

Schrödinger's solution has nothing to do with circular or elliptical orbits, but rather with the different possible probability densities the electron can have.

Consequently, they were no more than brittle tissue-thin hulls now, drifting into highly elliptical orbits as their atmosphere leaked out and tanks ruptured.

Batygin and Brown realised that the six most distant of these objects all follow elliptical orbits that point in the same direction in physical space.

Now, of those attendant bodies which the sun maintains in their elliptical orbits by the great law of gravitation, some few in turn possess satellites.

Many of the 454 exoplanets discovered to date have highly elliptical orbits, meaning the planets are not always the same distance from their parent star.