9 sentences with 'orbit'

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• « Gravity keeps satellites in orbit. »

• « Satellites are artificial objects that orbit around the Earth. »

• « The experienced astronaut was conducting a spacewalk outside the ship in orbit around the Earth. »

• « In 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the Earth, an event that was seen as a major Soviet triumph in the Cold War. »

• « The TV series are a thing of the past compared to this futuristic space suit which, according to researchers, makes it possible to move in space in a 250-kilometre orbit around the Earth. »

• « From an orbit close to Umbriel, an ice-covered moon, Uranus reveals one of its rarest phases caused by its extraordinary axial tilt. The inner moons Ariel, the largest, and Miranda have the same phase. »

• « Sinope, probably a ball of rock and ice, hangs in space 24,000,000 kilometres from Jupiter. Because of its small size and eccentric orbit, it is believed to have once been an errant asteroid captured by the planet's gravity. »

• « Kepler also observed that there was some kind of force emanating from the sun that seemed to keep the planets in orbit; based on another scientist's recent work on magnets, Kepler concluded that some form of magnetism was likely the cause (in fact, Kepler had noted the role of gravity in space). »

• « Until the late 19th century, scientists accepted Sir Isaac Newton's concept of a "mechanically precise universe", an orderly and logical place where everything from the fall of an apple to the orbit of the Moon around the Earth happens in a predictable way. The stars hung fixed in space, eternal and unchanging, held in place by the force of gravity. »

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