Quotes About Orbit

But when his mistress for the time being was a woman in society, or at least one whose birth was not so lowly, nor her position is so irregular that he was unable to arrange for her reception in 'society,' then for her sake he would return to it, but only to the particular orbit in which she moved or into which he had drawn her.

He liked to think he was in on the secrets she had. When she smiled slyly, he smiled slyly too, and they exchanged confidences in whispers. The world had drawn close around them, and they were in the center of it, or rather Rose of Sharon was in the center of it with Connie making a small orbit about her. Everything they said was a kind of secret.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

estás sobre un planeta que viaja a la velocidad de ciento siete mil kilómetros por hora a través del espacio, al mismo tiempo que rota alrededor de su eje a una velocidad de mil seiscientos kilómetros por hora.

There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.

The dock was in a low orbit, attached to a planet via a structure called a lift tower, which held the shaft for the drop box used to reach the surface.

A wanderer in darkness, she followed an eccentric orbit, each new disturbance angling her closer to some long-awaited rendezvous. She could only hope that when the moment came, she'd be wise enough to know it, and brave enough to act.

Pluto is dead.

rushing along its annual course round the sun at the rate of nineteen miles every second.

Jupiter takes 4332 days to make one revolution); then

In June the earth is 184 million miles away from where it was in December: how

In the end, the problem was not grief. Grief was the first cause, perhaps, but it soon gave way to something else - something more tangible, more calculable in its effects, more violent in the damage it produced. A whole chain of forces had been set in motion, and at a certain point I began to wobble, to fly in greater and greater circles around myself, until at last I spun out of orbit.

All orbits are free. Several earths I lob to you while going blind— the two white ones you keep, one in each hand.

It docked at one of their national low orbit stations, the Spirit of Freedom