The planet has an almost circular orbit, ranging from 1.53 to 1.95 AU with a period of 1.8 years.

Atlantis is making a complete revolution of the Earth every 90 minutes in an orbit ranging as high as 203 miles and as low as 183 miles.

They have orbits ranging from 3.3 to 4.9 days.

The satellite launched today was thrust into a preliminary orbit ranging from about 104 to 22,300 miles high.

The shuttle entered an orbit ranging in altitude from 178 miles to 232 miles.

It had been intended to conduct scientific research for two or more years from an elliptical orbit ranging from 300 km to 80,000 km from Venus.

Twenty minutes after the launching, a Delta rocket propelled the satellite into an elliptical orbit ranging from about 115 miles to 23,000 miles above the Earth.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the satellite remained in a sharply elliptical orbit ranging from about 100 to 22,300 miles above earth.

Long-period comets have highly eccentric orbits and periods ranging from 200 years to thousands or even millions of years.

It orbits in a highly eccentric orbit ranging from roughly 4 AU to 63 AU from the primary.