equatorial plane
the plane passing through the equator of the earth or another celestial body.
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Such worlds were a shock to astronomers, because planets form inside pancake-shaped disks of gas and dust orbiting in their stars’ equatorial planes.
Most planets on tilted orbits pass over the poles of their suns | Ken Croswell | June 14, 2021 | Science NewsIn 2008, however, astronomers began finding worlds in other solar systems that sail far above and below their star’s equatorial plane.
Most planets on tilted orbits pass over the poles of their suns | Ken Croswell | June 14, 2021 | Science NewsAn equatorial plane divides it into two parts, which have equal shares in bounding the segmentation cavity.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland BalfourBy these "two main axes" an equatorial plane is determined, which approximates them to the Discoidea.
The diameter of this equatorial plane is the "minor axis" of the ellipsoid.
Commonly all radial beams lie in the equatorial plane, sometimes also a part of them on both sides of it.
On the margin (in the equatorial plane) three strong pyramidal spines (at the end of the arms).
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