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An orbital plane is the geometric plane of an orbit. It is described by its difference from a reference plane. The reference plane for the Solar System...- mean: Atomic orbital Molecular orbital Frontier orbital Orbital period Orbital eccentricity Orbital hybridization Orbital speed Orbital plane (astronomy)...
Ascending node (category Orbits)reference plane to the northern side, hence ‘ascending’. For objects orbiting the Sun, the most convenient reference plane is the orbital plane of the Earth...- orbital node at which an orbiting object moves north through the plane of reference (in geocentric and heliocentric orbits) or at which the orbiting object...
- Argument of periapsis (category Orbits)way the object is orbiting. The angle is measured in the orbital plane and in the direction of motion. For specific types of orbits, words such as "perihelion...
Celestial coordinate system (category Astronomy)equatorial coordinates. The fundamental plane is the plane of the Earth's orbit, also called the ecliptic plane. There are two versions: the geocentric...
In astronomy, axial tilt is the angle between a planet's rotational axis at its north pole and a line perpendicular to the orbital plane of the planet...
Apsis (category Orbits)In astronomy, an apsis, plural apsides (IPA: /apsɪdɪːz/) is the point of greatest or least distance of the elliptical orbit of an astronomical object from...
Styx (moon) (section Orbital properties)other moons of Pluto. The moon orbits in the same orbital plane as the other moons. The moon takes around 20 days to orbit Pluto. The moon system around...
from a single protostellar disk. Afterwards, they stayed in the same orbital plane. Most multiple star systems are triple stars. Systems with four or more...
approximately the orbital plane of Jupiter. The inclination of the Earth's orbit has a 100,000 year cycle relative to the invariable plane. This is very similar...- history of astronomy tells how civilizations thought about the sky they saw at night. It also discusses the beginnings of modern astronomy. Babylonian...
Uranus (redirect from Astronomy Uranus)Souami, D.; Souchay, J. (July 2012). "The solar system's invariable plane". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 543: 11. Bibcode:2012A&A...543A.133S. doi:10...
Solar System (section Ecliptic plane)The plane of the ecliptic is defined by the Earth's orbit around the Sun. All of the planets orbit the Sun roughly around this same orbital plane. The...- Celestial equator (category Astronomy)equator is a term in observational astronomy. It is a great circle on the imaginary celestial sphere, in the same plane as the Earth's equator. In other...
Saturn (redirect from Astronomy Saturn)"Saturn: orbital and rotational information". MIRA: field trips to the stars: the Solar System. Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy. 2006. Retrieved...
generally far from Ceres when both cross the same orbital plane and a collision is again unlikely. Orbital simulation Archived 2012-12-13 at Archive.today...
Mercury (planet) (redirect from Orbit of Mercury)Retrieved 2020-09-14. "MESSENGER Gains Critical Gravity Assist for Mercury Orbital Observations". Archived from the original on 2013-05-10. Retrieved 2020-09-14...
Kepler's laws (category Astronomy)intervals of time. The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit. Johannes Kepler found these laws...- List of Jupiter's moons (category Astronomy lists)list starts with those that go around Jupiter (orbit) the fastest. That is, they have the shortest orbital period. Moons highlighted in purple are the "Galilean...
- on a wave where the amplitude is zero. (astronomy) A node is the point on an orbit where it crosses a plane. (computing) A node is a computer in the