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- Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
42: ...t the planets move around the sun not in circular orbits, but in elliptical ones. Together with his other ... - Earth (30908 bytes)
108: Earth is actually beyond the outer edge of the orbits which would be warm enough to form liquid water. ...
122: Earth orbits the Sun every 365.2564 mean solar days ([[siderea...
126: ...as one [[natural satellite]], the [[Moon]], which orbits around Earth every [[month|27 1/3 days]]. Thus fr...
132: ... one natural satellite (the [[Moon]]) comfortably orbits.
157: As the Moon orbits Earth, different parts of its face are illuminate... - Hippopotamus (6778 bytes)
28: ...' is less specialized. It has longer legs and the orbits of its eyes are not raised above the roof of its ... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
31: ...eroids. Some comets with [[hyperbola|hyperbolic]] orbits may also originate outside the Solar System.
32: ...re icy comet-like bodies that have less-eccentric orbits so that they remain in the region between Jupiter...
34: ...anet, and the Kuiper belt objects with Pluto-like orbits are called [[Plutino]]s. The remaining Kuiper bel...
35: ...ort cloud]] objects, currently hypothetical, have orbits lying between 50,000 and 100,000 AU. This region ...
75: ... style="font-size:larger;"| '''Scale of planetary orbits.'''<br>(million [[kilometre]]s) - Sun (20830 bytes)
124: The primary stellar body around which an object orbits is called ''its'' sun, and stars in a [[multiple ...
128: ...mputer models]] of [[stellar evolution]]. The Sun orbits the center of the [[Milky Way galaxy]] at a dista...
136: ...ect the shape of the Sun, although the Sun itself orbits the [[barycenter]] of the solar system, which is ... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...he [[asteroid belt]], with [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jup...
10: ...ate man-made objects which have ended up in solar orbits, such as the [[Mariner IV]] probe.
14: ... a total of 277,090 minor planets with calculated orbits, 99,906 asteroids had been calculated well enough...
21: ...into groups based on the characteristics of their orbits and on the details of the [[visible spectrum|spec...
74: ...ncreasing interest in identifying asteroids whose orbits cross [[Earth|Earth's]] orbit, and that could, gi... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...s typically move in highly [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits, the [[aphelion|aphelia]] of which may be many ti...
9: ...l interactions, falling into extremely elliptical orbits that bring them very close to the [[Sun]]. When a...
13: ...bit.png|thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Note the two distinct tails.]]
20: ...e:Comet Kohoutek orbit p391.jpg|thumb|376px|right|Orbits of [[Comet Kohoutek]] and [[Earth]], illustrating...
21: ...n why comets get perturbed into highly elliptical orbits, including close approaches to other [[star]]s as... - Planet (8450 bytes)
52: ...ly close to their parent star, in nearly circular orbits. They therefore receive much more stellar [[radia... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
28: ... piloted the Shenzhou V mission, accomplishing 14 orbits before returning to Earth the next day. - History of science (41710 bytes)
74: ...w not circular orbits, but [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse. Also in... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
211: ... poses significant technical challenges. Mercury orbits three times closer to the [[Sun]] than does Earth...
213: ...e outer planets requires still more fuel to match orbits with the destination planet). - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
70: ...hat with sufficiently accurate knowledge of their orbits one could use their positions as a universal cloc... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
57: ...hanics]], i.e., gravitation and its effect on the orbits of [[planet]]s, with reference to [[Johannes Kepl... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
52: ... his disappointment, Kepler's attempts to fix the orbits of the planets within a set of polyhedrons never ...
54: ...quence of his failed attempt to fit the planetary orbits within polyhedra. Kepler's willingness to abandon... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...position. Although all planets' [[planetary orbit|orbits]] are [[ellipse|elliptical]], Venus's orbit is th...
82: Venus orbits closer to the Sun than Earth does, with an orbita...
118: ...]], [[Venera 15]] and [[Venera 16]] entered polar orbits around Venus. Venera 15 analyzed and mapped the u... - Mars (27704 bytes)
47: ...age:Phobos Deimos orbit Mars.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Orbits of Phobos and Deimos (to scale)]]
49: ...s pointing the same face towards it. Since Phobos orbits around Mars faster than the planet itself rotates...
99: ...t 80,000,000 km. However, this varies because the orbits are [[ellipse|elliptical]]. To a naked-eye observ... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
246: ...tidal forces would tend to circularize the moons' orbits over time.
250: ...e moons more strongly during the portion of their orbits that are closest to it and allowing them to sprin...
259: ...roup]] is a tightly clustered group of moons with orbits around 11-12,000,000 km from Jupiter. - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
207: ... in [[2008]] when the spacecraft has completed 74 orbits around the planet. - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
126: ...es were usually reserved for objects with unusual orbits.
140: ...e sort that produces [[Trojan point]]s. Since the orbits are eccentric, the 3:2 periodic ratio is favoured...
173: ... massive to account for supposed anomalies in the orbits of [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]] and Neptune. Once i... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
59: #Orbits and celestial spheres do not have a unique, commo...
61: #All the planets move along orbits whose center is the Sun, therefore the Sun is the...
108: ...implicity resulted from his retention of circular orbits for the planets around the central Sun. Copernicu...
113: ... [[Kepler]] had certainly despatched the circular orbits of the planets and replaced them with ellipses, b...
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