Orbits

"Orbits" in a Sentence (10 examples)

The satellite made 10 orbits of the earth.

The readiest support for planets' having confocal orbits is their sometimes retrograde motion.

The earth rotates on its axis and it orbits the sun.

To go on from pain to pain mystery to mystery. From stone pain to plant pain. For everything is pain. The pain of battle the fear of not being. Links of pain chain the earth to the sky the waters to the land. And worlds gallop in orbits of affliction. Thinking of surprise.

The asteroid belt is located in the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

An exomoon is a moon that orbits around an exoplanet.

Enos became the first chimp to orbit the earth on November 29, 1961, aboard a Mercury Atlas rocket. Although the mission plan originally called for three orbits, due to a malfunctioning thruster and other technical difficulties, flight controllers were forced to terminate Enos' flight after two orbits. Enos landed in the recovery area and was picked up 75 minutes after splashdown. He was found to be in good overall condition.

The Earth orbits around the Sun. It takes one year to go around the Sun one complete time.

One of Neptune's moons, Triton, orbits the planet in a direction opposite to Neptune's other moons.

Valentina Tereshkova made 48 orbits of Earth. She spent almost three days in space.

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