Example sentences of "orbit around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you ever felt that you ( and the family ) are in orbit around a controlling , wilful toddler ? |
| 2 | Two rocky bodies , masses m 1 and m 2 , densities d 1 and d 2 , are in orbit around a planet of mass M. Both bodies are several hundred kilometres diameter . |
| 3 | This additional angular motion imposed by the field is quantised , exactly as if the electron was constrained in an orbit around an atom . |
| 4 | Other factors can alter the Earth 's climate from millennium to millennium and decade to decade , including slight changes in its orbit around the Sun , and the effects of greenhouse are superimposed on these other factors . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nor did one put shrapnel into orbit around the base . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So , as our planet moves on its yearly orbit around the sun , the northern hemisphere is angled towards the sun for part of the year , and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it for the other part . |
| 10 | Under such circumstances it was programmed to select an orbit around the largest near planetary mass , emitting a distress signal until it was recovered . |
| 11 | The natural assumption was that the electrons were in orbit around the nucleus as the earth is in orbit around the sun . |
| 12 | The natural assumption was that the electrons were in orbit around the nucleus as the earth is in orbit around the sun . |
| 13 | In particular , it was believed that the speed of light ought to change as the earth moves through the ether on its orbit around the sun . |
| 14 | And by the time we had butted our way into orbit around the planet , I was feeling fairly relaxed . |
| 15 | It is just possible that this far-off configuration will be unstable , and that the Sun will draw the Moon away into an independent orbit around the Sun , leaving the Earth Moon-less . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How long does it take Mercury 's residual precession of the perihelion to rotate the semi-major axis of Mercury 's orbit around the Sun once ? |
| 20 | Use the arguments outlined in section 7.1 to account for a synchronization of a planet in an eccentric orbit around the Sun . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One modern example is a space capsule in orbit around the earth ; another is a capsule falling radially toward the Earth . |
| 23 | The US Magellan spacecraft launched in May 1989 [ see p. 36674 ] was successfully placed in an elliptical orbit around the planet Venus on Aug. 10 . |
| 24 | And if we look at the planets of our solar system , lo and behold , every single one of them is travelling at exactly the right velocity to keep it in its stable orbit around the Sun . |
| 25 | The planets orbit around the sun . |