We found 157 examples of how to use orbit in an English sentence.
Sentences 51 to 75 of 157.
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| 51. | Not only does Triton orbit Neptune in a direction opposite the other moons, but it is made of rock and ice. This is very different from Neptune's other moons. | |
| 52. | Neptune was discovered because Uranus did not follow the orbital path predicted by astronomers. Astronomers assumed that the gravitational pull of another object was affecting the orbit of Uranus. This led them to look for, and find, Neptune. | |
| 53. | Ceres is located 415 million kilometers from the Sun and revolves around the Sun in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. | |
| 54. | It takes 557 Earth years for Eris to make one orbit around the Sun. | |
| 55. | Eris has a highly eccentric orbit around the Sun, which causes its surface temperature to vary from -217 degrees Celsius to -243 degrees Celsius. | |
| 56. | Haumea is named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth. The two moons in orbit around Haumea were named after two of the children of Haumea. Hi'iaka is the larger moon, while the smaller moon was named Namaka. | |
| 57. | It takes 310 Earth years for Makemake to make one orbit around the Sun. | |
| 58. | Astronomers think that about 100,000 million comets orbit the Sun. | |
| 59. | Scientists think that about 100 million comets orbit the Sun. | |
| 60. | If the comet nucleus is pulled into an orbit which carries it close to the Sun, the solar heat will cause the outer layers of the icy nucleus to evaporate. | |
| 61. | In 1957, Sputnik 2 was launched carrying a dog named Laika. Laika was the first animal to orbit the Earth. | |
| 62. | The United States and the Soviet Union have put space stations into orbit around the Earth. | |
| 63. | The Soviet Union put a total of seven space stations in orbit between 1971 and 1982. | |
| 64. | In 1973, the United States launched Skylab, a space station. It was designed so that astronauts could live and work in orbit for prolonged periods of time. | |
| 65. | In 1986, the Soviet Union launched the Space Station Mir. During its 15 year lifetime, it was the largest space station to orbit the Earth. | |
| 66. | During the 15 years it was in orbit, Russia's Mir space station provided a home in space for more than one hundred cosmonauts and astronauts from at least twelve different countries. | |
| 67. | The Space Shuttle has the ability to take off like a rocket, orbit the Earth like a spaceship, and land on a runway like an airplane. | |
| 68. | On May 14, 1973, a two-staged Saturn V rocket propelled the 90 metric ton unmanned Skylab space station into an orbit above Earth. | |
| 69. | Once in orbit, a defect in the optical mirrors of the Hubble Space Telescope prevented the clarity that scientists had hoped for when viewing images provided by the telescope. | |
| 70. | Data from Hubble are relayed to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) that is in a geosynchronous orbit above Earth. This satellite relays the data to a terminal in White Sands, New Mexico. | |
| 71. | While working in the Shuttle during orbit, astronauts work in comfortable clothes such as knit shirts, pants, or flight suits. | |
| 72. | Some space probes, such as Pioneer 10, fly out of our solar system and never come back. Other space probes, like the Hubble Space Telescope, stay in orbit around the same planet their whole life. | |
| 73. | The Cassini spacecraft went into orbit around Saturn in July 2004. It will study the planet, its ring system, and many of its moons for at least 4 years. | |
| 74. | Mariner 10 used the gravitational pull of Venus to swing it into a different orbit so it could continue on to Mercury. | |
| 75. | On August 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER mission to Mercury. It will fly by Earth, Venus, and Mercury itself several times before settling into orbit around our innermost planet in March 2011. |