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orbiting

adjective as in circling

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The space shuttle became the world’s first reusable winged orbiting spaceship.

Its destination is Europa, a deeply-mysterious moon orbiting the distant planet Jupiter.

From BBC

Observations from Earth and orbiting probes suggest that some of this water works through fissures in the ice and blasts through in geysers over a hundred miles high.

The Nadir asteroid was about the size of Bennu, which is currently the most hazardous object orbiting near Earth.

From BBC

Instead of orbiting our Sun, this exoplanet revolves around a star in the Virgo constellation roughly 200 light-years from Earth.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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