Explore: *earth Orbits

Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km (92.96 million mi), or 8.317 light-minutes, in a counterclockwise direction as viewed

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less

Earth orbit may refer to: Earth's orbit, the orbit of the Earth around the Sun Geocentric orbit, an orbit around the Earth Earth Orbiter 1, a shuttle simulator

medium Earth orbit, where geostationary satellites are and where after their end of use they are parked in similar orbits, so-called graveyard orbits. Atmospheric

Earth's Moon. Areocentric orbit (named after Ares): An orbit around the planet Mars, such as that of its moons or artificial satellites. For orbits centered

cislunar space. Earth's hill sphere extends to a distance of 1,471,400 km (914,300 mi), encompassing halo orbits, orbits around the Sun-Earth Lagrange points

The Moon orbits Earth in the prograde direction and completes one revolution relative to the Vernal Equinox and the fixed stars in about 27.3 days (a tropical

the orbit is not fixed in space relative to the distant stars, but rotates slowly about the Earth's axis. Typical Sun-synchronous orbits around Earth are

described both geosynchronous orbits in general and the special case of the geostationary Earth orbit in particular as useful orbits for space stations. The

object that orbits the Sun more closely than Earth would typically have a shorter orbital period than Earth, but that ignores the effect of Earth's gravitational