Phrase Hound found 25 phrases and 2 compound words that contain orbits. The most common are listed below. Open orbits in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
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- sun-synchronous orbitsplural of sun-synchronous orbit: A nearly polar orbit in which a satellite passes over the surface of a planet maintaining the same local mean solar time.
- Molniya orbitsplural of Molniya orbit: A highly elliptical orbit with an eccentricity of 0.74, inclination of 63.4 degrees, an argument of perigee of −90 degrees, and an orbital period of half a sidereal day, around the Earth.
- banana orbitsplural of banana orbit: A specific shape or particle orbit that resembles a banana when viewed from the side or above, occurring because the particle moves back and forth between two mirror points, creating a curved, elongated loop.
- Clarke orbitsplural of Clarke orbit: geostationary orbit
- graveyard orbitsplural of graveyard orbit: An orbit where spacecraft which have reached their end of life can be safely positioned to avoid colliding with other spacecraft or the Earth.
- halo orbitsplural of halo orbit: A periodic, three-dimensional orbit about any one of the Lagrange points L₁, L₂ or L₃ of a two-body gravitational system.
- lunar orbitsplural of lunar orbit: The orbit of the Moon around the Earth.
- parking orbitsplural of parking orbit: A temporary orbit used during the launch of a satellite or space probe, before the final trajectory is set.
- synchronous orbitsplural of synchronous orbit: A satellite orbit where the orbital period is equal to, or multiples of, the Earth’s rotational period; i.e. making one, two, three, etc., orbits in a 24-hour period. Examples include geosynchronous (period …
- cranial orbitsplural of cranial orbit: The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.
- Bohr orbitsplural of Bohr orbit: The orbit of an electron around the atomic nucleus in the Bohr model.
- high Earth orbitsplural of high Earth orbit: An Earth-centered orbit located at an altitude greater than the geosynchronous orbit, which is approximately 35,786 km above the Earth's surface.
- last photon orbitsplural of last photon orbit: Of a black hole, a spherical limit around a black hole at such distance that any photon meeting it tangentially is constrained to travel in a circular orbit; (more loosely) the region between this limit and the …
- low Earth orbitsplural of low Earth orbit: A satellite orbit around the Earth within an altitude range of approximately 200 to 2,000 km, in which a satellite can communicate with the Earth with minimal time lag and energy consumption.
- medium Earth orbitsplural of medium Earth orbit: An Earth-centered orbit with an altitude above a low Earth orbit and below a high Earth orbit, between 2,000 and 35,786 km above sea level.
- Lyapunov orbitsplural of Lyapunov orbit: In the restricted three-body problem, a curved path around a Lagrangian point that lies entirely in the plane of the two primary bodies.
- rectilinear orbitsplural of rectilinear orbit: A theoretical type of orbit which goes in a straight-line, up and down; with 100% orbital eccentricity (eccentricity=1.0); the orbital path passing through the center-of-mass of the primary mass being orbited …
- Hohmann orbitsplural of Hohmann orbit: An elliptical orbit used to transfer between two circular orbits of different radii in the same plane.
- innermost stable circular orbitsplural of innermost stable circular orbit: The closest radius at which a particle can maintain a stable, circular orbit around a massive, compact object, such as a black hole.
- Lissajous orbitsplural of Lissajous orbit: A quasiperiodic orbital trajectory that an object can follow around a Lagrangian point of a three-body system without requiring any propulsion.
- osculating orbitsplural of osculating orbit: The orbit that an astronomical body such as a planet, asteroid, comet or satellite would follow if suddenly all perturbing forces other than the gravitational attraction of the Sun or (for a satellite) its …
- Hohmann transfer orbitsplural of Hohmann transfer orbit: An elliptical orbit used to transfer between two circular orbits of different radii in the same plane.
- near-rectilinear halo orbitsplural of near-rectilinear halo orbit: A halo orbit with nearly straight sides between passes near the orbited body.
- heliosynchronous orbitsplural of heliosynchronous orbit: A sun-synchronous orbit.
- subsynchronous orbitsplural of subsynchronous orbit: The orbit of a satellite that is nearer the planet than it would be if it were in synchronous orbit
Compound words 2
- midorbitsplural of midorbit: The middle of an orbit.
- suborbitsplural of suborbit: The lower part of the orbit of the eye.