period of revolution
Britishnoun
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What is the period of revolution about the Sun for an asteroid with a semi-major axis of 3 AU in the middle of the asteroid belt?
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Use Kepler’s third law to calculate the period of revolution of a spacecraft orbiting at a distance of 6000 km.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
When it was at half its present distance, how long was its period of revolution?
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
No object, however large, that barely grazed the earth could materially affect its period of revolution.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here, too, it is well to start with the earth's period of revolution as the standard, and to see how the periods taken by the other planets compare with it.
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
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