Orbit and Space Vocabulary

Any object in space orbiting a celestial body

A natural celestial object orbiting a planet

The point in an orbit farthest from the parent body

The point along an Earth orbit, which is farthest from the planet

The point in an orbit closest to the parent body

The point along an Earth orbit, which is closest to the planet

The altitude where it is said Earth ends and Space begins (name)

The principle stating the faster an object is moving, the more a input of force will affect it’s orbit

The range at which an object is effected by an objects gravity

How circular an orbit is around it’s parent

The angle an orbit possesses relative to the planet’s equatorial line

An orbit which is perpendicular to the parent object’s equator

The geometrical surface defined by an object’s orbit

The time is takes an object to complete it’s orbit

a type of orbit where the object takes the same time to complete an orbit as the parent takes to rotate once, both moving in the same direction

The Imaginary line at which a planet rotates about

The angle that Earth, leans relative to it’s orbit