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  2. Orbital period - Wikipedia

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    The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object. In astronomy , it usually applies to planets or asteroids orbiting the Sun , moons orbiting planets, exoplanets orbiting other stars , or binary stars .

  3. Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia

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    Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia

  4. Orbit equation - Wikipedia

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    In astrodynamics, an orbit equation defines the path of orbiting body around central body relative to , without specifying position as a function of time.Under standard assumptions, a body moving under the influence of a force, directed to a central body, with a magnitude inversely proportional to the square of the distance (such as gravity), has an orbit that is a conic section (i.e. circular ...

  5. Lambert's problem - Wikipedia

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    Stated another way, Lambert's problem is the boundary value problem for the differential equation ¨ = ^ of the two-body problem when the mass of one body is infinitesimal; this subset of the two-body problem is known as the Kepler orbit.

  6. Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    3-hour timelapse showing rotation of Jupiter and orbital motion of the moons. Jupiter is the only planet whose barycentre with the Sun lies outside the volume of the Sun, though by 7% of the Sun's radius. [130] [131] The average distance between Jupiter and the Sun is 778 million km (5.2 AU) and it completes an orbit every 11.86 years.

  7. Rings of Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    The rings of Jupiter are a system of faint planetary rings. The Jovian rings were the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus . The main ring was discovered in 1979 by the Voyager 1 space probe [ 1 ] and the system was more thoroughly investigated in the 1990s by the Galileo orbiter. [ 2 ]

  8. Standard gravitational parameter - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter: 1.266 865 34 (9) × 10 17: ... orbiting the Sun or most moons and greatly simplifies equations. ... where r is the orbit radius, v is the orbital ...

  9. Orbital resonance - Wikipedia

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    The correct equation (part of the Laplace equations) is: ... The shift in Pallas' orbital alignment relative to Jupiter increases steadily over time; it never ...