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• Orbit of the Moon — Not to be confused with Lunar orbit in the sense of a selenocentric orbit, that is, an orbit around the Moon The Moon completes its orbit around the Earth in approximately 27.3 days (a sidereal month). The Earth and Moon orbit about their… …   Wikipedia

• Lunar node — Dragon s Tail redirects here. For the Dragon s Tail stretch of road in North Carolina, see Deals Gap, North Carolina. The lunar nodes are the points where the moon s path in the sky crosses the ecliptic, the sun s path in the sky The lunar nodes… …   Wikipedia

• Lunar eclipse — For other uses, see Lunar eclipse (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Solar eclipse. The …   Wikipedia

• Lunar month — Animation of the Moon as it cycles through its phases, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. The apparent wobbling of the Moon is known as libration. In lunar calendars, a lunar month is the time between two identical syzygies (new moons or full… …   Wikipedia

• Lunar precession — Unreferenced|date=May 2007There are two important precessional motions in the Orbit of the Moon.The long axis (line of the apsides: perigee and apogee) of the moon s elliptical orbit precesses about once in just under 9 years. It is caused by the …   Wikipedia

• Node Module — redirects here. For other uses, see Node Module (disambiguation). The Node Module (NM) is a pressurized module of the Russian Segment (RS or ROS) of the International Space Station (ISS) and will be used in the OPSEK space station. NM is being… …   Wikipedia

• Orbit — This article is about orbits in celestial mechanics, due to gravity. For other uses, see Orbit (disambiguation). A satellite orbiting the Earth has a tangential velocity and an inward acceleration …   Wikipedia

• Orbit equation — In astrodynamics an orbit equation defines the path of orbiting body around central body relative to , without specifying position as a function of time. Under standard assumptions, a body moving under the influence of a force, directed to a… …   Wikipedia

• Node — In general, a node is a localised swelling (a knot ) or a point of intersection (a vertex). Node may refer to: In mathematics Node (autonomous system), behaviour for an ordinary differential equation near a critical point Node (graph theory), a… …   Wikipedia

• Lunar ecliptic limit — Ecliptic E*clip tic, a. [L. eclipticus belonging to an eclipse, Gr. ekleiptiko s. See {Eclipse}.] 1. Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way. [1913 Webster] 2. Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses. [1913 Webster] {Lunar ecliptic… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Orbit phasing — In astrodynamics orbit phasing is the adjustment of the time position of spacecraft along its orbit, usually described as adjusting the orbiting spacecraft s true anomaly. This is predominantly used in satellite positioning, especially if the… …   Wikipedia