Example sentences of "orbit around the earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Moon orbits around the Earth it exerts its gravitational pull as illustrated : |
| 2 | Because of the way that the Moon moves in its orbit around the Earth , its place of rising on the horizon varies a little , each night moving a tiny amount further north until its position of rising seems to come to a halt ( a standstill ) before moving back southwards again . |
| 3 | Astronomically , this is because as the Earth moves around on its axis every 24 hours , the Moon during the day and night moves through one-thirtieth of its orbit around the Earth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One modern example is a space capsule in orbit around the earth ; another is a capsule falling radially toward the Earth . |