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orbit

[awr-bit] / ˈɔr bɪt /




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He entered Barker’s orbit in 2024 when the director’s comedy team, That’s a Bad Idea, was looking for original music and a mutual friend hit up a producer Burwell collaborated with.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Trump officials invited her to Mar-a-Lago on election night and she’s been in his orbit ever since.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

In her early twenties, she came into Epstein's orbit when she visited a Paris agency and met modelling scout Daniel Siad.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Weir and a small crew are sent on a recovery mission after the lost spaceship, the Event Horizon, suddenly reappears in orbit around Neptune, issuing a distress signal.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

April 3, 1966: The Luna 10 space probe becomes the first spacecraft to orbit the moon.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

For instance, G 203-47's red dwarf rotates once every 100 or so days, but orbits its white dwarf every 14.9 days, meaning they are not tidally synced.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

The company projects Starship will begin launching to lower-Earth orbits in the second half of this year, but it isn’t clear when the company could get its rockets to the orbits required by StormWall.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Because of this ambiguity, astronomers classify it as a "planetary-mass companion," an object with planet-like mass that orbits a star.

From Science Daily Jun. 28, 2026

Donaldjohanson has remained in the asteroid belt since its formation, while Bennu and Ryugu eventually migrated into near-Earth orbits that periodically bring them close to our planet.

From Science Daily Jun. 25, 2026

Whatever, there is no doubt that when Halley did visit Newton they discussed planetary orbits and the inverse square law.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Back in 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon 10 times without landing.

From Barron's Apr. 7, 2026

Among the many faulty narratives that orbited out of the government, one asked us to consider the mental anguish suffered by these dispatched officers.

From Slate Feb. 12, 2026

He added that as the galaxies orbited one another and moved toward the superheated gas cloud surrounding the Virgo cluster, which reaches temperatures about 200 times hotter than the Sun's surface, they experienced "ram pressure."

From Science Daily Oct. 19, 2025

There was talk about the advice he received from the giants that orbited his life — like Elia Kazan, whom Bruce studied under at the Actor’s Studio in New York.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2024

Maybe even Mae Jemison had seen this very tree as she’d orbited Earth 126 times in the space shuttle Endeavour.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Previous research has identified rocky planets orbiting within the habitable zones of their stars.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

Researchers have found the first atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

This describes a phenomenon where a star wobbles back and forth, indicating a massive companion object is orbiting.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Further analysis showed that every one of those signals originated from technology on Earth or from satellites orbiting our planet.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

A few drifted over, lazily orbiting the jar.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull




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