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Record 1 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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Record 2 1980-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronomy
DEF

In celestial mechanics, the angle between the radius vector to an orbiting body from its primary(the focus of the orbital ellipse) and the line of apsides of the orbit, measured in the direction of travel, from the point of closest approach to the primary(perifocus).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronomie
DEF

Angle caractérisant la position d'une planète sur son orbite, repérée par rapport au grand axe de l'orbite.

Spanish

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Record 3 1978-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronomy
OBS

... the angle measured from the center M of the elliptic orbit between the perihelion and the point G’, where G’ is the point of intersection of the perpendicular dropped from G on to the line connecting perihelion and aphelion A and the circle described about the center of the ellipse with radius equal to the semi-axis major of the ellipse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronomie
OBS

Angle formé au centre de l'ellipse par le grand axe et le rayon du cercle construit sur le grand axe et aboutissant à la perpendiculaire abaissée du lieu vrai sur cet axe.

Spanish

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