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unusual facts about The Orbital


The Orbital

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2010 TK7

The orbital information was published in the journal Nature by Paul Wiegert of the University of Western Ontario, Martin Connors of Athabasca University and Christian Veillet, the executive director of the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope.

Anna Maria Nobili

She authored a number of papers on satellite dynamics and co-authored a book with Andrea Milani and P. Farinella on the orbital perturbations induced by non-gravitational forces.

Binet equation

Matching the orbital h^2/l to physical values like GM or k e q 1 q 2/m reproduces Newton's law of universal gravitation or Coulomb's law, respectively.

DFS Kopernikus

The orbital station keeping manoeuvres of the satellites were conducted by the Flight Dynamics Group of the German Aerospace Center (German Space Operations Center) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria.

G92 Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway

At this interchange, the extra, non-orbital section of expressway to Shanghai branches off to the north while the orbital continues to the south and crosses the bay using the Hangzhou Bay Bridge.

Ground track

A special case of the geosynchronous orbit, the geostationary orbit, has an eccentrity of zero (meaning the orbit is circular), and an inclination of zero in the Earth-Centered, Earth-Fixed coordinate system (meaning the orbital plane is not tilted relative to the Earth's equator).

Kirkwood gap

The gaps were first noticed in 1866 by Daniel Kirkwood, who also correctly explained their origin in the orbital resonances with Jupiter while a professor at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Kreutz Sungrazers

A study by Brian Marsden in 1967 was the first attempt to trace back the orbital history of the group to identify the progenitor comet.

Marine isotope stage

The theoretical advances and greatly improved data available by the 1970s enabled a "grand synthesis" to be made, best known from the 1976 paper Variations in the earth’s orbit: pacemaker of the ice ages (in Science), by J.D. Hays, Shackleton and John Imbrie, which is still very widely accepted today, and covers the MIS timescale and the causal effect of the orbital theory.

Palomar–Leiden survey

As each minor planet was discovered, the orbital elements were computed at the Cincinnati Observatory.

Pendulum

As first explained by Maximilian Schuler in a 1923 paper, a pendulum whose period exactly equals the orbital period of a hypothetical satellite orbiting just above the surface of the earth (about 84 minutes) will tend to remain pointing at the center of the earth when its support is suddenly displaced.

Plug door

Currently, plug doors are used only on the outer hatch doors on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station as well as on the hatch between the Orbital Module and Descent Module on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Age of 63

Robert Beverly Hale cited the drawing, particularly the structure of the eye, for its attention to anatomical detail and the clarity with which the orbital cavity is described.

Prenzlauer Allee

The arterial road connects the centre of former East Berlin at Alexanderplatz via Karl-Liebknecht-Straße with the far north-eastern districts and the orbital motorway Berliner Ring (BAB 10) via the Bundesautobahn 114.

Stations of the Tide

Stations of the Tide is the story of a bureaucrat with the Department of Technology Transfer who must descend to the surface of Miranda to hunt a magician who has smuggled proscribed technology past the orbital embargo, and bring him to justice before the world is transformed by the flood of the Jubilee Tides.

Superior orbital fissure

Blindness or loss of vision indicates involvement of the orbital apex, which is more serious, requiring urgent surgical intervention.

Thibault Damour

He contributed greatly to the understanding of gravitational waves from compact binary systems, and with Alessandra Buonanno, he invented the "effective one-body" approach to solving the orbital trajectories of binary black holes.