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solar orbit

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solar orbit [′sō·lər ′ȯr·bət]
(astronomy)
An orbit of a planet or other celestial body or satellite about the sun.
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95 metre aperture wide-field Schmidt camera was launched on a Delta II rocket into an Earth-trailing solar orbit 1,530km behind the Earth, where it will have an uninterrupted view of a 105 square degree section of sky in Cygnus and Lyra (see front cover image).
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