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Meaning of "highly elliptical"

Highly elliptical: This phrase describes an orbit or path that is greatly elongated and non-circular. It is commonly used in the context of celestial mechanics to characterize the trajectory of satellites or other celestial bodies with a significant deviation from a circular shape

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Highly elliptical orbit with a small perihelium distance.
It and one other have highly elliptical orbits.
Including highly elliptical or hyperbolic orbits where relevant.
The capture orbit achieved will be highly elliptical.
Illustration of the highly elliptical orbit at start of aerobraking.
Brazil could provide a third satellite on a highly elliptical orbit.
It follows a highly elliptical path around the sun.
Comets mover around the sun in highly elliptical orbits.
They have highly elliptical orbits that bring them.
According to that report they would operate on highly elliptical orbits.
The two stars share a highly elliptical orbit that takes several centuries to complete.
These corrections would place the probe in a highly elliptical orbit around Mars.
Satellites in highly elliptical or geostationary orbits are able to monitor large geographical areas5.
The neutron star is usually in a wide highly elliptical orbit around the Be star.
Indeed, this atmospheric reentry is in fact only the prolongation of a highly elliptical.

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They are described as having highly elliptical orbits between Neptune and Jupiter.
The satellite was successfully launched into a nearly polar, highly elliptical orbit.
Note that Mars has a highly elliptical orbit compared to the Earth.
But comets are much smaller than planets, and they travel in highly elliptical orbits.
Some of the TNOs share unusual, highly elliptical orbits and are clustered in one direction.
Also, the variation in gravity with altitude becomes important, especially for highly elliptical orbits.
Phaethon 's comet-like highly elliptical orbit around the sun gives credence to this hypothesis.
Unlike the planets that have nearly circular orbits, TNOs have highly elliptical orbits.
Orbit the Sun in highly elliptical orbits 6.
Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit.
A depiction of Gateway 's highly elliptical orbit around the Moon.
Orbits = = Amateur satellites have been launched into low Earth orbits and into highly elliptical orbits.
Initially, Surveyor entered a highly elliptical orbit that took 45 hours to complete.
Number four, A moon is a naturally-occurring object that orbits the Sun with a highly elliptical orbit.
Molniya orbit - a highly elliptical orbit with a 12-hour period.
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun has highly elliptical orbit.
Pluto travels along a highly elliptical path and last passed closest to the sun in 1989.
All three planets have “ eccentric ” or highly elliptical orbits.
The stars complete their highly elliptical orbit every 107 days.
Eris takes 557 years to travel once around the Sun along its highly elliptical orbit.
At the same time, the main orbiter entered a highly elliptical route around Mars, as planned.
It successfully placed the HEOS-2 satellite into a highly elliptical orbit.
Like Pluto, Eris has a highly elliptical orbit.
An extrasolar planet has been confirmed to orbit HD 80606 in a highly elliptical orbit.
This planet, according to Sitchin, possesses a highly elliptical orbit of period 3600 terrestrial years.
Fourth quarter 2004, Regulatory and technical provisions for satellite networks using highly elliptical orbits.
According to the team 's calculations, it should have a highly elliptical orbit under Proca stresses.
One in particular, called S2, takes 16 years to complete its highly elliptical orbit.
Wednesday 's 49-minute flight put the satellite on a highly elliptical path around the Earth.
A Molniya orbit is a semi-synchronous, highly elliptical orbit.

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