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planetary orbit

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planetary orbit [′plan·ə‚ter·ē ′ȯr·bət]
(astronomy)
The path that a planet has as it revolves about the sun.


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The plan -- codename ROSE PARADE -- calls on citizens to gather and mark the beginning of a new planetary orbit around the lone sun, EL SOL.
I realized the star's wacky motion was simply the stun of three planetary orbits," Marcy told SW.
Here Kepler set forth his first two laws of celestial motion: the planetary orbit is an ellipse with the sun as one of the loci; and the radius vector drawn from the sun describes equal areas in equal times.
 
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