eccentricities — ec·cen·tric·i·ty || ‚eksen trɪsÉ™tɪ n. irregularity, oddity; strangeness, unconventionality … English contemporary dictionary
Amor asteroid — The Amor asteroids are a group of near Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it. Most Amors do cross the orbit of Mars. The two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, may … Wikipedia
Moons of Jupiter — Jupiter and its four largest moons (montage) Jupiter has 64 confirmed moons,[1][2] giving it the largest retinue of moons with reasonably secure orbits of any planet in t … Wikipedia
Nathan Mahl — From left to right: Guy LeBlanc, Guy Dagenais, Alain Bergeron, and Tristan Vaillancourt performing at FMPM, 2007. Background information Origin … Wikipedia
Scattered disc — The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy minor planets known as scattered disc objects (SDOs); a subset of the broader family of trans Neptunian objects (TNOs). The scattered … Wikipedia
Classical Kuiper belt object — The orbits of various cubewanos compared to the orbit of Neptune (blue) and Pluto (pink) … Wikipedia
Planet — This article is about the astronomical object. For other uses, see Planet (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
Orbital eccentricity — This article is about eccentricity in astrodynamics. For other uses, see Eccentricity (disambiguation). An elliptic Kepler orbit with an eccentricity of 0.7 (red), a parabolic Kepler orbit (green) and a hyperbolic Kepler orbit with an… … Wikipedia
eccentricity — [[t]e̱ksentrɪ̱sɪti[/t]] eccentricities 1) N UNCOUNT Eccentricity is unusual behaviour that other people consider strange. He was known as Mad Shelley partly because of his eccentricity and partly because of his violent temper... She is unusual to … English dictionary
Orbital resonance — For the science fiction novel by John Barnes, see Orbital Resonance (novel). In celestial mechanics, an orbital resonance occurs when two orbiting bodies exert a regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, usually due to their… … Wikipedia
