Wednesday 7 December 2011

List of terms and concepts

Altitude

as acclimated here, the acme of an article aloft the boilerplate apparent of the Earth's oceans.

Analemma

a appellation in astrochemistry acclimated to call the artifice of the positions of the Sun on the angelic apple throughout one year. Closely resembles a figure-eight.

Apogee

is the extreme point that a accessory or angelic anatomy can go from Earth, at which the alternate acceleration will be at its minimum.

Eccentricity

a admeasurement of how abundant an apogee deviates from a absolute circle. Eccentricity is carefully authentic for all annular and egg-shaped orbits, and emblematic and abstract trajectories.

Equatorial plane

as acclimated here, an abstract even extending from the equator on the Earth to the angelic sphere.

Escape velocity

as acclimated here, the minimum acceleration an article after propulsion needs to accept to move abroad indefinitely from the Earth. An article at this acceleration will access a emblematic trajectory; aloft this acceleration it will access a abstract trajectory.

Impulse

the basic of a force over the time during which it acts. Abstinent in (N·sec or lb * sec).

Inclination

the bend amid a advertence even and addition even or axis. In the faculty discussed actuality the advertence even is the Earth's close plane.

Orbital characteristics

the six ambit of the Keplerian elements bare to specify that apogee uniquely.

Orbital period

as authentic here, time it takes a accessory to accomplish one abounding apogee about the Earth.

Perigee

is the abutting access point of a accessory or angelic anatomy from Earth, at which the alternate acceleration will be at its maximum.

Sidereal day

the time it takes for a angelic article to circle 360°. For the Earth this is: 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.091 seconds.

Solar time

as acclimated here, the bounded time as abstinent by a sundial.

Velocity

an object's acceleration in a accurate direction. Since acceleration is authentic as a vector, both acceleration and administration are appropriate to ascertain it

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