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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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