use. Orbital decay can occur due to tidal forces for objects below the synchronous orbit for the body they're orbiting. The gravity of the orbiting object...

it usually applies to planets or asteroids orbiting the Sun, moons orbiting planets, exoplanets orbiting other stars, or binary stars. It may also refer...

Look up orbital in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orbital may refer to: Atomic orbital Molecular orbital Hybrid orbital Orbit Earth orbit Orbit (anatomy)...

asteroid, or comet. A system of two orbiting bodies is modeled by the Two-Body Problem and a system of three orbiting bodies is modeled by the Three-Body...

momentum of the orbit, v {\displaystyle v\,} is the orbital speed of the orbiting body, r {\displaystyle r\,} is the radial distance of the orbiting body from...

Tiangong-1 station was in orbit at about 355 kilometres (221 mi), until its de-orbiting in 2018. The Chinese Tiangong-2 station was in orbit at about 370 km (230 mi)...

A geocentric orbit, Earth-centered orbit, or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites. In 1997, NASA estimated...

Orbiting Jupiter is a 2015 young adult fiction novel written by Gary D. Schmidt, the author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and Okay for Now....

around which it orbits), the purple angle ω in the diagram. True anomaly (ν, θ, or f) at epoch (t0) defines the position of the orbiting body along the...

value of 0 is a circular orbit, values between 0 and 1 form an elliptic orbit, 1 is a parabolic escape orbit (or capture orbit), and greater than 1 is...