ORBit is a CORBA 2.4 compliant Object Request Broker (ORB). It features mature Ada, C, C++ and Python bindings, and less developed bindings for Perl,... 2 KB (88 words) - 13:38, 27 December 2023 |
Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km (8.317 light minutes, 92.96 million mi) in a counterclockwise direction as viewed from... 17 KB (1,834 words) - 05:28, 17 March 2024 |
Look up orbital in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orbital may refer to: Atomic orbital Molecular orbital Hybrid orbital Orbit Earth orbit Orbit (anatomy)... 1 KB (178 words) - 11:34, 25 November 2023 |
The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object. In astronomy... 17 KB (2,059 words) - 21:43, 10 April 2024 |
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less... 18 KB (2,090 words) - 06:30, 28 April 2024 |
value of 0 is a circular orbit, values between 0 and 1 form an elliptic orbit, 1 is a parabolic escape orbit (or capture orbit), and greater than 1 is... 24 KB (2,683 words) - 07:03, 1 April 2024 |
A geocentric orbit, Earth-centered orbit, or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites. In 1997, NASA estimated... 17 KB (1,997 words) - 05:12, 1 March 2024 |
A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GSO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, 23 hours... 32 KB (3,171 words) - 19:30, 12 March 2024 |
gravitational orbit classified by various characteristics. The following is a list of types of orbits: Galactocentric orbit: An orbit about the center... 31 KB (3,471 words) - 19:19, 24 February 2024 |
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... 3 KB (443 words) - 15:43, 5 February 2024 |
Space debris (redirect from Orbital debris) debris) are defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth orbit – which no longer serve a useful function. These include derelict spacecraft... 169 KB (17,198 words) - 14:47, 28 April 2024 |
In anatomy, the orbit is the cavity or socket/hole of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated. "Orbit" can refer to the bony socket... 13 KB (1,500 words) - 15:28, 9 March 2024 |
Pluto (redirect from Hadeocentric orbit) ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest... 162 KB (14,009 words) - 10:33, 19 April 2024 |
Mark Wainwright (born 15 December 1956), known professionally as William Orbit, is an English musician and record producer who has sold 200 million recordings... 32 KB (2,182 words) - 01:35, 28 April 2024 |
Orbit is a brand of sugarless chewing gum from the Wrigley Company. In the United States, where it was re-launched in 2001, it is sold in cardboard boxes... 6 KB (682 words) - 17:28, 7 June 2023 |
The Moon orbits Earth in the prograde direction and completes one revolution relative to the Vernal Equinox and the stars in about 27.32 days (a tropical... 37 KB (4,652 words) - 18:08, 16 April 2024 |
A heliocentric orbit (also called circumsolar orbit) is an orbit around the barycenter of the Solar System, which is usually located within or very near... 4 KB (381 words) - 13:53, 15 August 2023 |
Jupiter (redirect from Jovian orbit) one-thousandth the mass 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... 173 KB (16,395 words) - 08:18, 20 April 2024 |
the orbital speed of an astronomical body or object (e.g. planet, moon, artificial satellite, spacecraft, or star) is the speed at which it orbits around... 11 KB (1,395 words) - 16:44, 13 January 2024 |
Orbit Downloader is a discontinued download manager for Microsoft Windows. Launched in 2006, its developers abandoned it in 2009. In 2013, Orbit Downloader... 7 KB (459 words) - 02:31, 18 April 2024 |
Earth orbit may refer to: Earth's orbit, the orbit of the Earth around the Sun Geocentric orbit, an orbit around the Earth Earth Orbiter 1, a shuttle simulator... 217 bytes (60 words) - 13:14, 4 December 2023 |
In spaceflight an orbit insertion is an orbital maneuver which adjusts a spacecraft’s trajectory, allowing entry into an orbit around a planet, moon, or... 5 KB (672 words) - 23:17, 3 March 2024 |
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... 155 KB (15,816 words) - 08:17, 20 April 2024 |
A polar orbit is one in which a satellite passes above or nearly above both poles of the body being orbited (usually a planet such as the Earth, but possibly... 3 KB (416 words) - 15:33, 8 January 2024 |