We found 157 examples of how to use orbit in an English sentence.
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| 1. | According to the IAU, a "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite. | |
| 2. | Pluto has a very unusual orbit. Once every 248 Earth years, Pluto swings inside the orbit of Neptune. It stays there for twenty years. During those twenty years, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune. | |
| 3. | Due to Triton's retrograde orbit, its density, and its composition, astronomers theorize that Triton was not originally a satellite of Neptune, but was captured by Neptune's gravitational pull, forcing it into an orbit around the planet. | |
| 4. | Most satellites, including the Hubble Space Telescope, orbit in a low Earth orbit of just a few hundred kilometers altitude. | |
| 5. | Chandra has an elliptical orbit which takes it more than 138,000 kilometers from Earth and then back to within 9600 kilometers of Earth. Chandra travels more than one-third of the way to the Moon with each orbit! | |
| 6. | Halley has a highly elongated orbit that takes it very close to the Sun and then flings it out into the outer solar system, well past the orbit of Pluto. | |
| 7. | Seventeen of the moons have a retrograde orbit, meaning they orbit in the opposite direction as Saturn and its other moons. | |
| 8. | Hubble’s view is optically stable, meaning the quality of its observing conditions never changes from day to day or even orbit to orbit. | |
| 9. | The satellite is now in orbit. | |
| 10. | The satellite is in orbit around the moon. | |
| 11. | The spaceship is out of orbit around the moon. | |
| 12. | The rocket put a communications satellite into orbit. | |
| 13. | The rocket is in orbit around the moon. | |
| 14. | The orbit around Sirius is elliptical. | |
| 15. | For the first time a satellite was launched into orbit. | |
| 16. | The artificial satellite was launched into orbit. | |
| 17. | The ESA put a satellite into orbit. | |
| 18. | The earth travels in an orbit around the sun. | |
| 19. | How many satellites have been put into orbit round the earth? | |
| 20. | He put his finger on the cause of the rocket's failure to orbit. | |
| 21. | They succeeded in putting an artificial satellite in orbit. | |
| 22. | A satellite was launched into orbit to monitor melting glaciers. | |
| 23. | Many moons orbit around Saturn. | |
| 24. | It takes 165 years for Neptune to orbit around the sun. | |
| 25. | Many satellites orbit the earth. |