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Bookmark or Share- Orbit - WikipediaAn animation showing a low eccentricity orbit (near-circle, in red), and a high eccentricity orbit (ellipse, in purple). In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as ...
- Explainer: All about orbits - Science News ExploresOrbits, orbits everywhere. This image shows the orbits of 2,200 potentially hazardous asteroids orbiting the sun. The orbit of the binary asteroid Didymos is shown by a thin white oval, and Earth’s orbit is the thick white path. The orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars are labeled as well. Center for Near Earth Object Studies, NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Planet Orbits - Space FactsOrbit Velocities. The closer a planet is to the Sun, the faster it needs to travel in order to maintain its orbit. Mercury 47.4 km/s. Venus 35.0 km/s. Earth 29.8 km/s. Mars 24.1 km/s. Jupiter 13.1 km/s. Saturn 9.7 km/s. Uranus 6.8 km/s.
- What Is an Orbit? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for KidsThe Short Answer: An orbit is a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one. An object in an orbit is called a satellite. A satellite can be natural, like Earth or the Moon. Since the Earth orbits the Sun, you’re actually in orbit right now!
- Orbits and Kepler's Laws - NASA ScienceKepler's three laws describe how planetary bodies orbit the Sun. They describe how (1) planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun as a focus, (2) a planet covers the same area of space in the same amount of time no matter where it is in its orbit, and (3) a planet’s orbital period is proportional to the size of its orbit (its semi-major ...
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