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a perpetual falling that keeps missing the ground, dressed up as elegant looping.
means Relating to the curved path one body takes around another in space, or to the eye socket, or describing something that circles a central point.
from From Latin orbita, 'a track, course, or rut left by a wheel,' itself from orbis, 'a ring, circle, or disk.' The same orbis gave us 'orb.' The wheel-rut sense is telling: a planet's orbit is literally the groove its motion carves through space. The anatomical 'orbit' — the bony socket cradling the eye — borrowed the word for its rounded, hollow ring of bone.
- endless fall
- orbiting is falling while moving sideways fast enough to miss
- chemistry steal
- electron orbitals are probability clouds, not neat circles
- low earth
- ISS orbits at about 28,000 km per hour
- the word
- also names a Manhattan-engine sci-fi superstructure ring
- music too
- Orbital made techno from a sampled stairwell
geostationary orbit — satellites at 35,786 km altitude above equator, used by weather and communications satellites since 1945
mercury's orbit — closest planet to sun, completes orbit in 88 earth days, has most elliptical orbit of all planets