Also the relative position of one body with respect to the other follows an elliptic orbit.

A series of numbers and formulae stood by each elliptic orbit.

Cruithne is in a normal elliptic orbit around the Sun.

Celestial bodies rotating about each other often have elliptic orbits.

Each of the Hilda objects moves along its own elliptic orbit.

This includes the radial elliptic orbit, with eccentricity equal to 1.

The last equation has a very simple generalization to elliptic orbits:

It "disturbs," as the astronomer says, the elliptic orbit which would otherwise have been pursued.

Four hours later, they recovered her quarterdeck section from the aphelion of a long elliptic orbit.

The bi-elliptic transfer consists of two half elliptic orbits.

This equality can be generalized to elliptic orbits as follows:

The use of a relatively small burn allows the spacecraft to be captured into a very elongated elliptic orbit.

Most properties and formulas of elliptic orbits apply.

Changes to elliptic orbits are also energy-expensive.

At energies between E 1 and E 2 bound elliptic orbits are possible.

When gradually making an elliptic orbit larger, it means applying thrust each time when near the periapsis.

During freefall the trajectory is part of an elliptic orbit as given by the orbit equation.

As the firing velocity is increased beyond this, elliptic orbits are produced; one is shown in (D).

For elliptic orbits true anomaly can be calculated from orbital state vectors as:

O brown star burning in the east, elliptic orbits bring you close; as close as this no eye has seen since sixty thousand years ago.

With little tilt to the axis of rotation, summer and winter were dictated only by the planet's movement along its twenty-year eccentric elliptic orbit.

Under standard assumptions the orbital period () of a body traveling along an elliptic orbit can be computed as:

Section 5.7: highly elliptic orbits.

Thus a comet in an elliptic orbit about the sun moves faster as it nears the sun, and slower when it is far away.

He also explained the atomic orbits of the electrons and derived the formula for the eccentricity of an elliptic orbit.