Table of Contents
58 relations: Accretion disk, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Angle, Angular momentum, Asteroid, Axial parallelism, Axial tilt, Azimuth, Beta angle, Binary mass function, Brown dwarf, Cambridge University Press, Degree (angle), Doppler spectroscopy, Dwarf planet, Ecliptic, Equator, Eris (dwarf planet), Exoplanet, Gas giant, HD 33636, Horizontal coordinate system, Invariable plane, Jack Wisdom, Jupiter, Kepler orbit, Kozai mechanism, Latitude, Methods of detecting exoplanets, Minimum mass, Natural satellite, Neptune, Nodal precession, Orbit, Orbit of the Moon, Orbital elements, Orbital inclination change, Orbital mechanics, Orbital plane, Orbital plane of reference, Orbital pole, Origin of the Moon, Peter Goldreich, Planet, Pluto, Polar orbit, Red dwarf, Retrograde and prograde motion, Reviews of Geophysics, Rotation, ... Expand index (8 more) »
Accretion disk
An accretion disk is a structure (often a circumstellar disk) formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a massive central body.
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is a professional society for the field of aerospace engineering.
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Angle
In Euclidean geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle.
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Angular momentum
Angular momentum (sometimes called moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum.
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Asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.
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Axial parallelism
Axial parallelism (also called gyroscopic stiffness, inertia or rigidity, or "rigidity in space") is the characteristic of a rotating body in which the direction of the axis of rotation remains fixed as the object moves through space.
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Axial tilt
In astronomy, axial tilt, also known as obliquity, is the angle between an object's rotational axis and its orbital axis, which is the line perpendicular to its orbital plane; equivalently, it is the angle between its equatorial plane and orbital plane.
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Azimuth
An azimuth (from the directions) is the horizontal angle from a cardinal direction, most commonly north, in a local or observer-centric spherical coordinate system.
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Beta angle
In orbital mechanics, the beta angle (\boldsymbol) is the angle between a satellite's orbital plane around Earth and the geocentric position of the Sun.
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Binary mass function
In astronomy, the binary mass function or simply mass function is a function that constrains the mass of the unseen component (typically a star or exoplanet) in a single-lined spectroscopic binary star or in a planetary system.
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Brown dwarf
Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Degree (angle)
A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is 360 degrees.
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Doppler spectroscopy
Doppler spectroscopy (also known as the radial-velocity method, or colloquially, the wobble method) is an indirect method for finding extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs from radial-velocity measurements via observation of Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the planet's parent star.
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Dwarf planet
A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve orbital dominance like the eight classical planets of the Solar System.
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Ecliptic
The ecliptic or ecliptic plane is the orbital plane of Earth around the Sun.
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Equator
The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
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Eris (dwarf planet)
Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System.
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Exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.
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Gas giant
A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.
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HD 33636
HD 33636 is a binary system located approximately 94 light-years away in Orion constellation.
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Horizontal coordinate system
The horizontal coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system that uses the observer's local horizon as the fundamental plane to define two angles of a spherical coordinate system: altitude and azimuth.
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Invariable plane
The invariable plane of a planetary system, also called Laplace's invariable plane, is the plane passing through its barycenter (center of mass) perpendicular to its angular momentum vector.
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Jack Wisdom
Jack Wisdom (born 1953) is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
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Kepler orbit
In celestial mechanics, a Kepler orbit (or Keplerian orbit, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler) is the motion of one body relative to another, as an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola, which forms a two-dimensional orbital plane in three-dimensional space. Orbital inclination and Kepler orbit are orbits.
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Kozai mechanism
In celestial mechanics, the Kozai mechanism is a dynamical phenomenon affecting the orbit of a binary system perturbed by a distant third body under certain conditions.
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Latitude
In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.
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Methods of detecting exoplanets
Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star.
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Minimum mass
In astronomy, minimum mass is the lower-bound calculated mass of observed objects such as planets, stars and binary systems, nebulae, and black holes.
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Natural satellite
A natural satellite is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet, dwarf planet, or small Solar System body (or sometimes another natural satellite).
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Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun.
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Nodal precession
Nodal precession is the precession of the orbital plane of a satellite around the rotational axis of an astronomical body such as Earth.
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Orbit
In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point. Orbital inclination and orbit are orbits.
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Orbit of the Moon
The Moon orbits Earth in the prograde direction and completes one revolution relative to the Vernal Equinox and the stars in about 27.32 days (a tropical month and sidereal month) and one revolution relative to the Sun in about 29.53 days (a synodic month). Orbital inclination and orbit of the Moon are orbits.
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Orbital elements
Orbital elements are the parameters required to uniquely identify a specific orbit. Orbital inclination and Orbital elements are orbits.
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Orbital inclination change
Orbital inclination change is an orbital maneuver aimed at changing the inclination of an orbiting body's orbit.
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Orbital mechanics
Orbital mechanics or astrodynamics is the application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets, satellites, and other spacecraft.
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Orbital plane
The orbital plane of a revolving body is the geometric plane in which its orbit lies. Orbital inclination and orbital plane are orbits.
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Orbital plane of reference
In celestial mechanics, the orbital plane of reference (or orbital reference plane) is the plane used to define orbital elements (positions). Orbital inclination and orbital plane of reference are orbits.
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Orbital pole
An orbital pole is either point at the ends of the orbital normal, an imaginary line segment that runs through a focus of an orbit (of a revolving body like a planet, moon or satellite) and is perpendicular (or normal) to the orbital plane. Orbital inclination and orbital pole are orbits.
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Origin of the Moon
The origin of the Moon is usually explained by a Mars-sized body striking the Earth, creating a debris ring that eventually collected into a single natural satellite, the Moon, but there are a number of variations on this giant-impact hypothesis, as well as alternative explanations, and research continues into how the Moon came to be formed.
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Peter Goldreich
Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars.
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Planet
A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.
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Pluto
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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Polar orbit
A polar orbit is one in which a satellite passes above or nearly above both poles of the body being orbited (usually a planet such as the Earth, but possibly another body such as the Moon or Sun) on each revolution.
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Red dwarf
A red dwarf is the smallest kind of star on the main sequence.
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Retrograde and prograde motion
Retrograde motion in astronomy is, in general, orbital or rotational motion of an object in the direction opposite the rotation of its primary, that is, the central object (right figure). Orbital inclination and Retrograde and prograde motion are orbits.
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Reviews of Geophysics
Reviews of Geophysics is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Geophysical Union.
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Rotation
Rotation or rotational motion is the circular movement of an object around a central line, known as axis of rotation.
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Satellite
A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body.
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Spherical law of cosines
In spherical trigonometry, the law of cosines (also called the cosine rule for sides) is a theorem relating the sides and angles of spherical triangles, analogous to the ordinary law of cosines from plane trigonometry.
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Star system
A star system or stellar system is a small number of stars that orbit each other, bound by gravitational attraction.
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
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Terrestrial planet
A terrestrial planet, telluric planet, or rocky planet, is a planet that is composed primarily of silicate, rocks or metals.
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The Astronomical Journal
The Astronomical Journal (often abbreviated AJ in scientific papers and references) is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal owned by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and currently published by IOP Publishing.
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Triton (moon)
Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune.
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2 Pallas
Pallas (minor-planet designation: 2 Pallas) is the third-largest asteroid in the Solar System by volume and mass.
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References
Also known as Angle of inclination, Inclination, Inclination angle, Inclinations, Obital Inclination.