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1 IV | calculated upon the moon’s orbit, are equal to about eleven
2 VI | describing its elongated orbit round the sun, happened
3 XIX | axis to the plane of its orbit. Hence the inequality of
4 XIX | inclined to the plane of its orbit!”~“Hurrah!” roared an energetic
5 XXVIII| now pursuing an elliptical orbit round the moon, of which
6 XXVIII| following an elliptical orbit round the star of night
7 XXVIII| projectile, held in one immutable orbit, would gravitate around
8 II | and seemed to describe an orbit round the earth, which would
9 III | the angle which the moon’s orbit makes with that of the earth.~“
10 V | the sun. The terrestrial orbit will bend toward the wandering
11 VI | in the moon a comet whose orbit will one day bring it so
12 XIII | little inclined upon its orbit.~What origin do they attribute
13 XVI | will describe an elliptical orbit around the moon.”~“Indeed!”~“
14 XVII | slightly lengthened elliptical orbit. From this point, had the
15 XIX | satellite in an elliptical orbit, why was not its heaviest
16 XIX | projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit
17 XIX | orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical;
18 XIX | fails in this law. Every orbit described in space is elliptical.
19 XIX | chain them in an immutable orbit. They counted the hours
20 XXI | gravitating in an immutable orbit.~From that moment it had
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