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ORBITAL MOTION [2 records]

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Record 1 2002-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
PHR

Orbital motion of waves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Mouvement circulaire décrit par un flotteur sur une onde de vague, en sens inverse de la propagation des vagues.

CONT

Le mouvement orbital des vagues se poursuit en profondeur mais devient insignifiant à quelques dizaines de mètres.

PHR

Mouvement orbital de la houle, des vagues.

Spanish

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Record 2 1992-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
  • The Stars (Astronomy)
DEF

Continuous motion of a body in a closed path, such as a circle or an ellipse, about some point.

CONT

Visual binaries generally have longer orbital periods than close binaries ... and in some cases the period is too long for any orbital motion to be detected.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
  • Étoiles (Astronomie)
CONT

Dans le cas où une des deux composantes est beaucoup plus brillante que l'autre, on ne voit pas une décomposition des raies, mais simplement un mouvement de va-et-vient de la longueur d'onde des raies de l'étoile la plus brillante pendant le mouvement orbital. Quand le mouvement des deux composantes est perpendiculaire à la direction d'observation, on n'a pas d'effet Doppler et les raies spectrales sont simples [...]

Spanish

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