orbit period

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Noun1.orbit period - the time it takes to complete one full orbit around a celestial body; "the orbit period depends on the altitude of the satellite"
period - the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
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The orbit period dropped from 4.4 hours to roughly 3.7 hours.
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Since then, Renu Malhotra (University of Arizona), Sarah Millholland and Gregory Laughlin (both at Yale), and others have shown that some of the extreme objects could be in orbit period resonances with the much larger world.
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We took advantage of the industry's highest thrust electric propulsion, which was used during 95 percent of the transfer orbit period."
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