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Celestial orbit   /səlˈɛstʃəl ˈɔrbət/   Listen
Celestial orbit

noun
1.
The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another.  Synonym: orbit.






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"Celestial orbit" Quotes from Famous Books



... Loved meet one another in so wide a world; how did they behave in such meeting? To all which questions, not unessential in a Biographic work, mere Conjecture must for most part return answer. 'It was appointed,' says our Philosopher, 'that the high celestial orbit of Blumine should intersect the low sublunary one of our Forlorn; that he, looking in her empyrean eyes, should fancy the upper Sphere of Light was come down into this nether sphere of Shadows; and finding ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle



Words linked to "Celestial orbit" :   geosynchronous orbit, apoapsis, route, itinerary, point of apoapsis, path, periapsis, point of periapsis



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