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21orbit — or•bit [[t]ˈɔr bɪt[/t]] n. 1) astron. the curved path, usu. elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body 2) the usual course of one s life 3) the sphere of influence, as of a nation or person 4) phs… …
22Orbit (anatomy) — The seven bones that articulate to form the orbit. yellow = Frontal bone green = Lacrimal bone brown = Ethmoid bone blue = Zygomatic bone purple = Maxillary bone aqua = Palatine bone red …
23Orbit determination — is a branch of astronomy specialised in calculating, and hence predicting, the orbits of objects such as moons, planets, and spacecraft . These orbits could be orbiting the Earth, or other bodies. The determination of the orbit of newly observed… …
24Orbit (anthology series) — Orbit was a long running series of anthologies of new fiction edited by Damon Knight, often featuring work by such writers as Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ, R. A. Lafferty, and Kate Wilhelm, who was married to Knight. The anthologies tended toward the… …
25Orbit Science Fiction — Orbit Science Fiction …
26Orbit (mascot) — Orbit was the name given to Major League Baseball s Houston Astros former mascot, a lime green outer space creature wearing an Astros jersey with antennae extending into baseballs. Orbit was the teams official mascot from the 1990 through the… …
27orbit — [ôr′bit] n. [MFr orbite < ML orbita < L, path, track < orbis, a circle, wheel] 1. the bony cavity containing the eye; eye socket 2. [L orbita] a) the actual or imaginary path taken by a celestial body during its periodic revolution… …
28Orbit — This article is about orbits in celestial mechanics, due to gravity. For other uses, see Orbit (disambiguation). A satellite orbiting the Earth has a tangential velocity and an inward acceleration …
29Orbit of the Moon — Not to be confused with Lunar orbit in the sense of a selenocentric orbit, that is, an orbit around the Moon The Moon completes its orbit around the Earth in approximately 27.3 days (a sidereal month). The Earth and Moon orbit about their… …
30Orbit portrait — In mathematics, an orbit portrait is a combinatorial tool used in complex dynamics for understanding the behavior of one complex dimensional quadratic maps. In simple words one can say that it is : a list of external angles for which rays… …
