plane of the ecliptic in a sentence
Examples
- For events occurring where the planes of the ecliptic and the horizon coincide, the limiting position for these points is located 90?from the ascendant.
- The two Voyager spacecraft, after exploring the outer planets, climbed out of the plane of the ecliptic and toward the edge of the planetary system.
- The reference plane can either be aligned with the Earth's equator, the plane of the ecliptic or the plane of the Milky Way galaxy.
- Distribution of trans-Neptunian objects, with vertical axis showing inclination from the plane of the ecliptic, and horizontal axis showing distance from the Sun.
- On the tilted by 2 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic . " Paavo Nurmi " was first identified as at Heidelberg Observatory in 1933.
- But planets can't be there because they lie in the plane of the ecliptic . talk ) 12 : 13, 20 December 2007 ( UTC)
- In the figure on the right, we can see the monthly variation of the apparent slope of the plane of the ecliptic at solar midday as seen from Earth.
- The Earth's orbit around the Sun is nearly a perfect circle, but it is more accurately described as an oval shaped, or plane of the ecliptic.
- The two most commonly proposed orbits for either a rotating or non-rotating skyhook are the plane of the planets, also known as the plane of the ecliptic.
- The light curve of ( 130 ) Elektra forms a double sinusoid while the shape model is elongated and the derived rotation axis is perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic.