adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
motion
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The orbital motion of the earth provided a causal explanation for why the planets appeared to meander across the sky.
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Any and all data regarding lunar orbital motions might be grist for creating the tables navigators needed.
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Wave currents are caused by the fact that a wave is an orbital motion which decreases with depth.
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The axial spin of the more massive body M tends to carry the tide ahead of the orbital motion .
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It is this orbital motion that exhibits the phenomena with which we are concerned.
period
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When the orbital period is plotted as a function of time it shows a steady decrease:.
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The orbital periods are again mostly about three to five years.
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The precision of measurement of the orbital period decay rivals the precision of this prediction.
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These asteroids with Earth-crossing orbits and orbital periods greater than one Earth year constitute the Apollo family.
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What is its sidereal orbital period around the Earth? 4.
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They are families, then, only in the sense that they have similar distances from the Sun and similar orbital periods .
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Enke is unusual in that it is the active comet with the shortest known orbital period .
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Almost all long-period comets have orbital periods of one hundred thousand years or more.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to Newtonian mechanics the orbital decay for an isolated binary consisting of compact stars is expected to be immeasurably small.
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Any and all data regarding lunar orbital motions might be grist for creating the tables navigators needed.
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Because of these orbital properties, some of these bodies have very short expected orbital lifetimes before colliding with Earth.
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Incidentally, there is nothing in the pro-gram that recognizes the existence of orbital families and clustering of impacts.
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Inserting the values of the orbital parameters measured by Taylor and his colleagues, given in Section 8.6, yields.
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The orbital periods are again mostly about three to five years.
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This is still a relatively light machine, but the weight is equivalent to a conventional half-sheet orbital sander.