highly elliptical orbit

The stars complete their highly elliptical orbit every 107 days.

The two stars share a highly elliptical orbit that takes several centuries to complete.

They have discovered many stars in highly elliptical orbits around the huge black hole there.

We are on a highly elliptical orbit, I gather.

Many extrasolar planets are known to move in highly elliptical orbits.

Initially, Surveyor entered a highly elliptical orbit that took 45 hours to complete.

Also, the variation in gravity with altitude becomes important, especially for highly elliptical orbits.

All this, despite Pluto's steady retreat from the sun as it followed its 273-year, highly elliptical orbit.

The neutron star is usually in a wide highly elliptical orbit around the Be star.

These appear to have been tossed into highly elliptical orbits, often at a sharp angle to the rest of the solar system.

Before Mariner 10, it was thought that the planet simply revolved around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit.

Satellites in highly elliptical orbits must be tracked by steerable ground stations.

Found a few of them out at about seventy AUs on highly elliptical orbits.

"With lonis we have a black hole going around a recent nova in a highly elliptical orbit.

The second would place the satellite in a highly elliptical orbit about the Earth, and work in conjunction with a ground telescope.

Polar is in a highly elliptical orbit, at an 86 inclination with an orbital period of 18 hrs.

Chandra's highly elliptical orbit allows it to observe continuously for up to 55 hours of its 65 hour orbital period.

The highly elliptical orbit, however, suggested that the gravity of an unseen object farther away from the star was pulling the planet outward.

The thirteenth, which was the final flight and the only one in the M6 configuration, placed Explorer 43 into a highly elliptical orbit.

To overcome the deficiencies of polar viewing from high altitude orbits, the highly elliptical orbit was developed.

It looped between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus, following a highly elliptical orbit.

This would put them into a highly elliptical orbit which would typically bring them back to Earth for a re-entry two to three days later.

All three satellites broadcast directly to the consumer's receiver, but due to the highly elliptical orbit only two of them broadcast at any given time.

It successfully placed the HEOS-2 satellite into a highly elliptical orbit.

However after a rocket failure it was left in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth that orbited through the electro/magnetic tail.