We found 40 examples of how to use orbits in an English sentence.
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| 1. | Enos became the first chimp to orbit the earth on November 29, 1961, aboard a Mercury Atlas rocket. Although the mission plan originally called for three orbits, due to a malfunctioning thruster and other technical difficulties, flight controllers were forced to terminate Enos' flight after two orbits. Enos landed in the recovery area and was picked up 75 minutes after splashdown. He was found to be in good overall condition. | |
| 2. | The satellite made 10 orbits of the earth. | |
| 3. | The readiest support for planets' having confocal orbits is their sometimes retrograde motion. | |
| 4. | The earth rotates on its axis and it orbits the sun. | |
| 5. | To go on from pain to pain mystery to mystery. From stone pain to plant pain. For everything is pain. The pain of battle the fear of not being. Links of pain chain the earth to the sky the waters to the land. And worlds gallop in orbits of affliction. Thinking of surprise. | |
| 6. | The asteroid belt is located in the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. | |
| 7. | An exomoon is a moon that orbits around an exoplanet. | |
| 8. | The Earth orbits around the Sun. It takes one year to go around the Sun one complete time. | |
| 9. | One of Neptune's moons, Triton, orbits the planet in a direction opposite to Neptune's other moons. | |
| 10. | Valentina Tereshkova made 48 orbits of Earth. She spent almost three days in space. | |
| 11. | Sometimes, as the Earth orbits the Sun, it comes between the Sun and the Moon. When this happens, the Earth throws a dark shadow across the Moon. This is known as an eclipse of the Moon, or a lunar eclipse. | |
| 12. | The Moon orbits Earth at an average distance of 382,400 kilometers. | |
| 13. | The nucleus of a hydrogen atom consists of a single proton. Around this proton orbits a single electron. | |
| 14. | Helium is the second simplest atom. It consists of a nucleus containing 2 protons and 2 neutrons. Around the nucleus orbits 2 electrons. | |
| 15. | The Moon orbits the Earth. | |
| 16. | Jupiter has four inner satellies: Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe. Their orbits are very close to the planet. | |
| 17. | The earth orbits the sun once a year. | |
| 18. | This planet orbits two stars. | |
| 19. | The planets follow elliptical orbits. | |
| 20. | The ISS travels in orbit around the Earth at an average speed of 27,743.8 km/h, completing 15.7 orbits per day. | |
| 21. | As the ISS orbits the Earth, both the vehicle and crew members are in a constant state of free-fall causing astronauts to experience a feeling of weightlessness. | |
| 22. | As Saturn orbits the Sun, though, our view of its rings changes. | |
| 23. | A mission called GRACE has a satellite that orbits Earth and maps the gravity across the surface. | |
| 24. | The artificial satellite orbits the earth. | |
| 25. | Comet Siding Spring is one of the long-period comets, those that require more than 200 years to orbit the Sun. These comets come from the Oort Cloud, a sphere of about a trillion ancient, icy objects located hundreds to thousands of times farther than the planets' orbits. |