... in the plane of the Earth's orbit, ignoring the small inclination of the Moon's ... 1978), an orbital distribution for LPCs on Earth-approaching orbits has been derived ...
... in the plane of the Earth's orbit, ignoring the small inclination of the Moon's ... As the Moon orbits the Earth at a distance of 0.0026 au, it is necessary also to ... 1978), an orbital distribution for LPCs on Earth approaching orbits was derived ...
... the first confirmed Earth-size planets orbiting another star, astronomers announced ... five planets, the newly confirmed Earth-size worlds orbit too close to their star to ...
... The Moon orbits the Earth every 27.3 days but the interval between Full Moons is two days longer than this because the Earth is ... The extra two days occur because the Earth is orbiting the Sun. ...
... 55P/ Tempel-Tut tle, is quite close to Earthorbit intersection at the present epoch ... Encke in contrast misses the Earth's orbit by quite some distance, at the present ...
... then we expect 500 such bodies to pass within the Earth's orbit each year, and 100 nodes of erstwhile dormant comets to come ... width of a meteor stream is 0.1 au, the number of strong Halley-type meteor streams intersecting the Earth's orbit is 15 ...
... was significantly nearer the Earth's orbit than at most perihelion returns, but ... Table 2) which are therefore primarily what bring orbits to Earth intersection ... turbations, than directly in pushing particles out towards Earth intersecting orbits ...
... location, perhaps adjacent to the 3:1 Kirkwood gap or in Earthcrossing orbits ... the chaotic zone associated with the resonance and thence into Earthcrossing orbits ...
... Yellow dots represent objects which approach the Earth but do not cross its orbit e.g. Amor asteroids . ... Red dots represent objects which cross the Earth's orbit e.g. Aten and Apollo asteroids . See also: . ...
... precession rate required for producing Earth-intersecting orbits at the present time ... at the present epoch while the non-resonant ones precess away from the Earth's orbit ...