Example Sentences

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The key measurement will be how much the smaller asteroid, which had been orbiting Didymos every 11 hours and 55 minutes, has sped up.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2022

The shuttle was scheduled to dock with the Russian space station Mir, which had been orbiting for 12 years.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022

After more than 21 hours on the lunar surface, the Eagle took off to rejoin the Columbia command module, in which Collins had been orbiting the moon.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2012

Pilot Jesse J. Anderson, 39, had been orbiting his HU-16 amphibious Albatross over the Gulf for nearly seven hours when he picked up the Phantom's cry for help.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shoemaker-Levy 9 had been orbiting Jupiter in a fairly conspicuous manner since 1929, but it took over half a century before anyone noticed.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson