During Grail's three-month primary mission, the spacecraft orbited at an average altitude of 55km.
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The ISS is due to be de-orbited, in the inelegant jargon of the field, in 2020.
But this go around, the Soyuz only orbited four times before hooking up with the space station.
One of these, run in collaboration with the American navy, was Clementine, a craft that orbited the moon.
Astronomers think this galaxy was torn apart by the gravity of a larger host galaxy that it orbited.
It was to have orbited Eros in January 1999, but a computer glitch ordered Near's rocket to misfire.
It has orbited great observatories that have unlocked the secrets of the universe.
That was six weeks after the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin had orbited Earth.
Many more creatures soared into space in the years to come, until Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth in April 1961.
Instead, gas and dust would simply have orbited around our star without moving inward, creating a so-called "dead zone" in the disk.
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Principal investigator Joe Veverka from Cornell University said the alterations were driven by the process material loss as the comet orbited the Sun.
Within an 11-year period after that, 12 of our citizens walked on the lunar surface and 6 of their crew companions orbited the body.
The alternative view, for those who like their galaxies light and fluffy, is that Sgr once orbited the Milky Way at a safer distance.
The cramped capsule carrying NASA's Karen Nyberg, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and Italy's Luca Parmitano orbited the Earth four times before docking with the space station.
Syncom 3 orbited above the Pacific Ocean and beamed pictures from the Tokyo Olympics to the US later that year - the first trans-Pacific TV transmission.
Measuring at two-thirds the size of our sun, this cosmic lantern is orbited by a total of five planets, three of which are too close to be habitable for life.
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As we orbited the sun, we exposed the back side of the collector to stardust, interstellar grains, that are actually coming in to our solar system at the present time.
This follows the discovery last year by Maciej Konacki, of the California Institute of Technology, of a gaseous giant orbiting a star that is itself orbited by a binary-star system.
As with the NASA satellite that de-orbited last month, there is no way to know exactly where any fragments of this one would hit, or whether they will even reach the ground.
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To make the fight fair, he decrees that the match should take place on his home planet, Bodace, which is orbited by a red sun (which temporarily robs Superman of his powers).
The Italian physicist concluded in the 1600s that the sun did not, in fact, travel around the earth, but that the earth orbited the sun, bucking Catholic logic that the earth was the center of the universe.
It started with Rachel Carson's popular 1962 book on the dangers of pesticides, "Silent Spring, " and the eye on the planet increased with a photo of the Earth taken from Apollo 8 as it orbited near the moon in 1968.
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia now are working on a scale they call the "dwell time index" to calculate how much time a planet has orbited in a habitable zone, compared with the time it took life to evolve on Earth.
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