Top Orbit Quotes

The velocities and forces involved in anything at orbital altitudes were enough to kill a human with just the rounding error. At their speeds, the friction from air too thin to breathe would set them...

One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousan...

Orbit Definition

(n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.

(n.) An orb or ball.

(n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

(n.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of di...

The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

Given their current circumstances, things would have to be very bad indeed for Tilly to think the situation had gotten worse. Sure, they were all trapped in orbit around an alien space station that pe...