Example sentences of "[prep] orbit around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did one put shrapnel into orbit around the base . |
| 2 | And by the time we had butted our way into orbit around the planet , I was feeling fairly relaxed . |
| 3 | Lord Sagramoso 's writ had run to the other barren planets of Karka 's Sun , and to those of its runtish red dwarf binary twin , Karka Secundus , including some small mining world in orbit around the twin . |
| 4 | The natural assumption was that the electrons were in orbit around the nucleus as the earth is in orbit around the sun . |
| 5 | The natural assumption was that the electrons were in orbit around the nucleus as the earth is in orbit around the sun . |
| 6 | Capture is made considerably easier if the Moon was captured in small pieces , because interactions between them , or between circum-Earth gases and such pieces would readily place some of them in orbit around the Earth . |
| 7 | For a body moving in orbit around the Sun the surface facing the direction of orbital motion will be struck by more ‘ bullets ’ than the trailing face , just like the front of you gets wetter than the back when you run through a storm of vertically descending rain . |
| 8 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 9 | So the only place to put such a black hole , in which one might use the energy that it emitted , would be in orbit around the earth — and the only way that one could get it to orbit the earth would be to attract it there by towing a large mass in front of it , rather like a carrot in front of a donkey . |
| 10 | One modern example is a space capsule in orbit around the earth ; another is a capsule falling radially toward the Earth . |