orbit@home was a BOINC-based volunteer computing project of the Planetary Science Institute. It uses the "Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis"...
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2007 Orbit Bexley and Thanet Community were merged to form Orbit South. Orbit is active in promoting shared ownership as well as providing homes for affordable...
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orbit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body. Orbit...
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"Project Stopped". Orbit.psi.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2013-10-29. "orbit@home is upgrading!". Orbit.psi.edu. Archived from...
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List of volunteer computing projects (redirect from SIDock@home)
2012-01-29. "Project Stopped | orbit@home". 2013-08-02. Archived from the original on 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2020-03-26. "Orbit@home". 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-13...
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impact. The team suspected that 2005 NB56's orbit likely fits with the Tunguska object's modelled orbit, even with the effects of weak non-gravitational...
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A parking orbit is a temporary orbit used during the launch of a spacecraft. A launch vehicle follows a trajectory to the parking orbit, then coasts for...
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Mercury (planet) (redirect from Mercury's orbit)
(58.65 Earth days) are in a 3:2 ratio. This relationship is called spin–orbit resonance, and sidereal here means "relative to the stars". Consequently...
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Mark Wainwright (born 15 December 1956), known professionally as William Orbit, is an English musician and record producer who has sold 200 million recordings...
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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (redirect from Spinhenge@home)
(a type of distributed computing). Developed originally to support SETI@home, it became the platform for many other applications in areas as diverse as...
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Planet Nine (section Orbit)
the peculiar clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs)—bodies beyond Neptune that orbit the Sun at distances averaging...
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Jupiter (redirect from Jovian orbit)
Earth and a tenth that of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm), with an orbital period of 11.86 years. It is the third-brightest...
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Orbital are an English electronic music duo from Dunton Green, Kent, England, consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. The band's name is taken...
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two minor planets to determine how they were formed and evolved. PSI's orbit@home was a distributed computing project through which the public could help...
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Starlink (redirect from Proliferated Low Earth Orbit program)
constellation consists of over 7,600 mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) that communicate with designated ground transceivers, and Starlink...
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became the first rocket to land propulsively after delivering a payload into orbit. This reusability results in significantly reduced launch costs, as the...
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Near-Earth object (section Orbital classification)
37,000+ known NEOs, divided into several orbital subgroups Apollos: 21,132 (56.54%) Amors: 13,137 (35.15%) Atens: 2,952 (7.9%) Comets: 123 (0.33%) Atiras:...
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Orbit is the name given to Major League Baseball's Houston Astros mascot, a lime-green alien wearing an Astros jersey with antennae extending into baseballs...
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scientificcommons.org. Retrieved 2013-05-15.[permanent dead link] "Orbit Home - Index Karl Jalkanen". Orbit.dtu.dk. Retrieved 2013-04-15. "Theoretical Chemistry Accounts"...
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International Space Station (redirect from Orbit of the International Space Station)
a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United...
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Solar System (section Orbits)
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. The name comes from Sōl, the Latin name for the Sun. It formed about 4.6 billion years...
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C/2010 X1 (Elenin) (section Original and future orbit)
2011-04-03. Kazuo Kinoshita (2011-02-26). "C/2010 X1 (Elenin)". Comet Orbit Home Page. Archived from the original on 2011-03-13. Retrieved 2011-03-08....
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Space Shuttle (redirect from Orbiter External Airlock)
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and...
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1016/0019-1035(84)90099-X. Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris 20D/Westphal, Comet Orbit Home Page 20D at Kronk's Cometography Orbital elements, Infrared...
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Lagrange point (redirect from Lagrange orbit)
as orbit corrections, and hence fuel requirements, needed to maintain the desired orbit are kept at a minimum. For any combination of two orbital bodies...
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Neptune (redirect from Orbit of Neptune)
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet orbiting the Sun. It is the fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive...
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Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24...
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The Space Shuttle orbiter is the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the discontinued...
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Lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) is a process for landing humans on the Moon and returning them to Earth. It was utilized for the Apollo program missions...
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Orbiter is a space flight simulator program developed to simulate spaceflight using realistic Newtonian physics. The simulator was released on 27 November...
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