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Any peeper can be a right pilot when the orbit's easy; but it takes guts to hold to the Pledge when the heat's on.
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Two points are not enough to constrain the orbital parameters of this planet, especially when the orbit's inclination, or tilt with respect to us, is not well known.
Archive 2008-12-11 Nicole 2008
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And really I had nothing to do with it, that was all orbit's design team.
Octopus on the Spine and Other Delights gailcarriger 2009
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The view through the dome swept the orbit's plane, facing outward toward the thick carpet of multicolored stars, the glowing gas clouds.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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"Can't they wait until after the orbit's been stabilized?"
The Dig Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1995
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The orbit's locked tighter than ever, and subspace communication with
Plato's Stepchildren 1966
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The Suns and Sachems sleep here, and he, the Great Sun, who came from the orbit's self, and was their lawgiver, and in whom and whose divinity they believed as the Jews in that of Moses, or the Christians in the Redeemer.
The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870
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The Suns and Sachems sleep here, and he, the Great Sun, who came from the orbit's self, and was their lawgiver, and in whom and whose divinity they believed as the Jews in that of Moses, or the Christians in the Redeemer.
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Future developments in space travel may make human-based exploration more tenable or necessary, and I hope that humanity's thirst for exploration will not be satiated at orbit's edge, but at the moment, it's a drain on our coffers that we can ill afford, and which makes little sense considering the benefits.
RedState 2010
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The first two orbital systems are the orbit's eccentricity, and tilt.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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