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  2. 2001 Nights - Wikipedia

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    Two stories from 2001 Nights, Night 12 ("Symbiotic Planet") and Night 14 ("Elliptical Orbit") respectively, were adapted into TO, a two-episode computer animation (CGI) original video animation (OVA). Fumihiko Sori directed. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Avex in December 2009, in Japan. [5]

  3. Orb: On the Movements of the Earth - Wikipedia

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    Anime and manga portal Orb: On the Movements of the Earth ( Japanese : チ。―地球の運動について― , Hepburn : Chi: Chikyū no Undō ni Tsuite [ a ] ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Uoto [ ja ] .

  4. Elliptic orbit - Wikipedia

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    In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics, an elliptic orbit or elliptical orbit is a Kepler orbit with an eccentricity of less than 1; this includes the special case of a circular orbit, with eccentricity equal to 0. In a stricter sense, it is a Kepler orbit with the eccentricity greater than 0 and less than 1 (thus excluding the circular orbit).

  5. Deferent and epicycle - Wikipedia

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    Epicyclical motion is used in the Antikythera mechanism, [citation requested] an ancient Greek astronomical device, for compensating for the elliptical orbit of the Moon, moving faster at perigee and slower at apogee than circular orbits would, using four gears, two of them engaged in an eccentric way that quite closely approximates Kepler's ...

  6. List of orbits - Wikipedia

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    Radial elliptic orbit: A closed elliptic orbit where the object is moving at less than the escape velocity. This is an elliptic orbit with semi-minor axis = 0 and eccentricity = 1. Although the eccentricity is 1, this is not a parabolic orbit. Radial parabolic orbit: An open parabolic orbit where the object is moving at the escape velocity.

  7. Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia

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    The planetary orbit is not a circle with epicycles, but an ellipse. The Sun is not at the center but at a focal point of the elliptical orbit. Neither the linear speed nor the angular speed of the planet in the orbit is constant, but the area speed (closely linked historically with the concept of angular momentum) is constant.

  8. Nemesis (hypothetical star) - Wikipedia

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    Nemesis is a hypothetical red dwarf [1] or brown dwarf, [2] originally postulated in 1984 [3] to be orbiting the Sun at a distance of about 95,000 AU (1.5 light-years), [2] somewhat beyond the Oort cloud, to explain a perceived cycle of mass extinctions in the geological record, which seem to occur more often at intervals of 26 million years.

  9. Two-body problem in general relativity - Wikipedia

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    This third force causes the particle's elliptical orbit to precess (cyan orbit) in the direction of its rotation; this effect has been measured in Mercury, Venus and Earth. The yellow dot within the orbits represents the center of attraction, such as the Sun. The orbital precession rate may be derived using this radial effective potential V