Near-Earth object orbits, Solar orbits that bring things in those orbits near the orbit of the Earth
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In spaceflight, especially for NASA's Constellation Program, the term sortie has been used for a flight of the Orion spacecraft beyond the confluence of low-Earth orbit, such as a flight to the Moon or to the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange Point.
This meteorite is believed to have been dislodged from a near-Earth orbit by the passing Halley's Comet.