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  1. orbitingverb

    Verb form of the word orbit.

    The satellite is orbiting earth as we speak.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 21, 2020  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of orbiting in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of orbiting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of orbiting in a Sentence

  1. Jason Dittmann:

    What I truly find exciting is that we have a potentially habitable, rocky planet orbiting a nearby star that is currently very calm and stable and doesn't flare, we're essentially running down the list of the things we want in a habitable planet and checking the boxes.

  2. Paul Hertz:

    TESS was designed and launched specifically to find Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby stars, planets around nearby stars are easiest to follow-up with larger telescopes in space and on Earth. Discovering TOI 700 d is a key science finding for TESS. Confirming the planet's size and habitable zone status with Spitzer is another win for Spitzer as it approaches the end of science operations this January.

  3. Scott Sheppard:

    In the Solar System's youth, the Sun was surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust from which the planets were born. It is believed that a similar gas-and-dust disk surrounded Saturn during its formation, the fact that these newly discovered moons were able to continue orbiting Saturn after their parent moons broke apart indicates that these collisions occurred after the planet formation process was mostly complete and the disks were no longer a factor.

  4. Alain Lecavelier des Etangs:

    We can not assure that the observed comets are likely to deliver material like water to planets orbiting Beta Pictoris, but our observations show that collisions are very common and therefore suggests that temperate planets can be enriched in material trapped in frozen ices captured by the comets when( the comets) are far from the star and later collide with the planets.

  5. Joshua Blackman:

    This evidence confirms that planets orbiting at a large enough distance can continue to exist after their star's death, given that this system is an analog to our own solar system, it suggests that Jupiter and Saturn might survive the Sun's red giant phase, when it runs out of nuclear fuel and self-destructs.

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