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the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another
he plotted the orbit of the moon
How To Use celestial orbit In A Sentence
- Cosmographical Dissertations; containing the cosmographical mystery respecting the admirable proportion of the celestial orbits, and the genuine and real causes of the number, magnitude, and periods of the planets, demonstrated by the five regular geometrical solids. ' The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
