earth's orbit
21Orbit@home — is a BOINC based distributed computing project of the Planetary Science Institute. It uses the Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis[1] framework to optimize the search strategies that are used to find near earth objects. On March 4, 2008 …
22Orbit insertion — is the spaceflight operation of adjusting a spacecraft’s momentum to allow for entry into a stable orbit around a planet, moon, or other celestial body.[1] This maneuver involves either deceleration from a speed in excess of the respective body’s …
23Earth II (TV series pilot) — Earth II was a 1971 pilot, aired November 28, for a television series about a colony established in orbit around the Earth. It starred Gary Lockwood, Anthony Franciosa, Lew Ayres and Mariette Hartley.tory outlineInitially, three men were launched …
24Earth's gravity — Earth s gravity, denoted by g , refers to the gravitational attraction that the Earth exerts on objects on or near its surface. Its strength is usually quoted in terms of the acceleration it gives to falling bodies (acceleration due to gravity),… …
25Earth Alliance (The History of the Galaxy) — Earth Alliance is a fictional political entity in The History of the Galaxy series of novels by Russian writer Andrey Livadny. It was formed through the joining of the Earth nation states sometime between the 21st and the early 23rd centuries.… …
26Orbit Unlimited — is a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson, first published in 1961.[1] Essentially a linked group of short stories, it recounts the colonisation of the planet Rustum, a fictional terrestrial world orbiting Epsilon Eridani, by a group of… …
27earth satellite — Any man made body, incl spacecraft, launched by rocket into space and put into orbit round the earth ● satellite * * * earth satellite, a satellite of the earth made by man, especially a metal sphere or other structure, launched by rockets into… …
28Orbit — Or bit, n. [L. orbita a track or rut made by a wheel, course, circuit, fr. orbis a circle: cf. F. orbite. See 2d {Orb}.] 1. (Astron.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter …
29Earth's atmosphere (Meteorology) — Earth s atmosphere (and its mechanics) can often be described in meteorology with very particular and specific terms. While meteorologists do use the more commonly understood standard terms for the earths atmospheric layers, these definitions are …
30Earth Radiation Budget Satellite — Typ: Forschungssatellit Land: USA Behörde: NASA NSSDC ID …
