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How to use the word orbit in a Sentence?

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How can you have a star sign if you don't know the sign you were born in because the months reduce every year in 29 and 30 day months? And every 30 years your sign goes to the earlier sign aswell. Unless you look at the stars and can calculate backwards to the date of birth. Or you could just ask a psychic? Unless you can hear spirit yourself? Also the orbit and earth's tilting has been changing since time began so that would need to be figured in; because it depends on which sign it spins to face first as to the order of birth date.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by Gina.taylor
2 months ago

When we put everything together, we saw drops in brightness that were not caused by Quaoar, but that pointed to the presence of material in a circular orbit around it. The moment we saw that we said, ‘Okay, we are seeing a ring around Quaoar,’.

Bruno Morgado

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Based on the data currently available, this star appears to have a slow-moving companion that is surrounded by a large disk of material, if that material were in the solar system, it would extend from the sun to Earth’s orbit, or farther.

Anastasios Tzanidakis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It appears that LauncherOne has suffered an anomaly which will prevent us from making orbit for this mission.

Christopher Relf

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded, politically motivated Witch Hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors, and the Fake News Media, you have no choice.

Rudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At certain times of the year, the moon is at its closest point to Earth and these are called supermoons, it's just a natural point of the moon's orbit. At each extreme, the moon is either a little bigger or a little bit smaller( at its furthest point), but it is not a huge difference.

Mike Hankey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

CAPSTONE is a pathfinder in many ways, and it will demonstrate several technology capabilities during its mission timeframe while navigating a never-before-flown orbit around the moon, cAPSTONE is laying a foundation for Artemis, Gateway, and commercial support for future lunar operations.

Elwood Agasid

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our commercial partnerships will help realize our human exploration goals, we look forward to using these services for NASA's continued presence in low-Earth orbit and our upcoming achievement of returning American astronauts to the Moon's surface.

Mark Kirasich

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We think it does put us in a good place relative to the competition, but we're happy that there are others that are going to help us grow the LEO [ low-earth orbit ] economy along the way.

Axiom CEO Suffredini

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People have problem on Earth. On orbit ... we are one crew.

Anton Shkaplerov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a very challenging time for international relations. My hope is that, in our attempts to further and find peace throughout the world, that these type of connections that we have can be maintained and serve as a path forward to try to find that common ground that we need so desperately to find peace, people have problem on Earth. On orbit ... we are one crew.

Vande Hei

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People have problems on Earth, on orbit, we are one crew, and I think ISS is like a symbol of the friendship, cooperation( and) our flexible future of exploration of space. Thank you very much, my crew members. You are like my space brothers and space sister.

Tom Marshburn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Now, we know its orbit very well, well enough to say that we are safe from an impact for many thousands of years.

Paul Chodas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Here’s a little secret: ironically, people with dominant Seductor Imposters might seem to crave intimacy—they certainly draw people into their orbit with the promise of it—but what actually animates them behind the scenes is fear of it.

Lisa Haisha

added by lisa.haisha
2 years ago

With respect to higher-level people, people within former President's orbit and the former President, there's going to be a lot of caution exercised before bringing any case, and I can't say whether a case ever will or will not be brought against any of those folks, you really want to be darn sure that you're going to succeed in that, because failure could actually be more harmful to the country than not bringing a case at all.

Mary McCord

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I and others came to accept the identification with the second stage as correct. The object had about the brightness we would expect, and had showed up at the expected time and moving in a reasonable orbit.

Bill Gray

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The private sector is technically and financially capable of developing and operating commercial low-Earth orbit destinations, with NASA's assistance. We look forward to sharing our lessons learned and operations experience with the private sector to help them develop safe, reliable, and cost-effective destinations in space, the report we have delivered to Congress describes, in detail, our comprehensive plan for ensuring a smooth transition to commercial destinations after retirement of the International Space Station in 2030.

Phil McAlister

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What we learn will inform how future exploration missions beyond low-Earth orbit are performed. This will help ensure that our astronaut crews can work effectively through challenges unique to long-duration spaceflight, including communication delays.

Brandon Vessey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In this HERA campaign, we're learning more about how teams function in an autonomous environment where they have limited contact with Earth, what we learn will inform how future exploration missions beyond low-Earth orbit are performed. This will help ensure that our astronaut crews can work effectively through challenges unique to long-duration spaceflight, including communication delays.

Brandon Vessey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This investment will ensure that Virgin Orbit has the capital required to go and build upon Virgin Orbit incredible foundation and continue its rapid transition into a successful commercial space launch company.

Richard Branson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So if someone has been exposed in your orbit or in your circle, or has been infected, you don't have to assume everybody has it. Do continue to do things like wearing masks around people or testing.

Jeremy Faust

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's nothing surprising about a civil rights lawyer who is now defending people in the Trump orbit, they are the people whose civil liberties and rights are being denied !

President Trump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The key to planetary defense is finding them well before they are an impact threat, the principle with all of them is just to change the orbital speed of the asteroid just a small amount. Changing that speed of the asteroid in its orbit changes its orbit so in the future, it won't be in the same place it was going to be to impact the Earth.

Lindley Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When we find a Planet B, I want it to be a true Earth twin, a planet orbiting a sun-like star and the Earth-like orbit that has a thin atmosphere and oceans and continents.

Sara Seager

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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