ecliptic plane

The orbit is inclined by 12.1 degrees to the ecliptic plane.

I swept out of the ecliptic plane, only to find more gunships.

Odds favor us, especially if we head out normally to the ecliptic plane."

They seem to lie near to the ecliptic plane, in the same half of the sky as the Inhibitor machine.

Look, I have a planet which goes in a backward orbit, and another one right out of the ecliptic plane."

It was not wise, though, to go into overdrive in the ecliptic plane of a solar system.

All prior observations had been made at or near the Solar System's ecliptic plane.

But they're out of the ecliptic plane.

However, unlike a comet, this object's orbit was nearly circular and within the ecliptic plane.

The solar nebula hypothesis predicts that all planets will form exactly in the ecliptic plane.

Of all the above, Ulysses is the only spacecraft whose orbit takes it large distances away from the ecliptic plane.

As the spacecraft climbed up out of the ecliptic plane, its sensors began to see a new picture of the Sun.

All planets have almost circular orbits that lie within a nearly flat disc called the ecliptic plane.

There was verification of the ecliptic plane.

They usually orbit more-or-less in the ecliptic plane in the same direction as the planets.

The animals of the Chinese zodiac are not associated with constellations, let alone those spanned by the ecliptic plane.

The Moon's rotational axis maintains a constant angle of inclination from the ecliptic plane.

The fundamental plane is the plane of the Earth's orbit, called the ecliptic plane.

The orbits of most planets lie close to the same plane as Earth's, known as the ecliptic plane.

Electric field is measured in the spin plane which is nearly parallel to the ecliptic plane.

As a result of the Earth's axial tilt, the celestial equator is inclined by 23.4 with respect to the ecliptic plane.

If you could look at the solar system "edge on" then all the planets would be orbiting in the plane of the ecliptic plane.

The astronomers suspected that, since it was crossing the ecliptic plane of the system at the time, the probe had failed to dodge an asteroid.

The giant planet's gravity bent the spacecraft's flight path southward and away from the ecliptic plane.

Pallas is highly inclined to the ecliptic plane.