Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Suborbitary

👉 In celestial mechanics, a suborbitary object is an object orbiting another one in such a way that it is closer to the latter than to the first. In other words, it is within its own orbit but also within the orbit of the second body. This relationship between two bodies can be described by Kepler's Third Law, which states that the ratio of the squares of the semi-major axis (a) and the semi-minor axis (b) of a planet's orbits is constant,

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