All of the planets rotate the sun in approximately the same ecliptic. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The plane of the ecliptic is well seen in this picture from the 1994 lunar prospecting Clementine spacecraft. From Wordnik.com. [Alien Hunters Shift Gears: Let E.T. Try To Find Us in the ‘Ecliptic’ | Disinformation] Reference
An answer to some of your questions: the plane-of-the-ecliptic is a geometric term that basically means the natural horizon of space, versus an an artificial horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!] Reference
The ecliptic is the band in the sky through which the sun, moon and planets course. From Wordnik.com. [Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 3 External Kalachakra] Reference
This path is known as the ecliptic, because eclipses only happen when the moon is in it. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
He discovered that apparent motion of the fixed stars round the axis of the ecliptic, which is called the. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The ecliptic is a great circle of the sphere, and is usually drawn on both celestial and terrestrial globes. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
Although the sun and moon both course through the band of the sky called the ecliptic, their orbits do not exactly coincide. From Wordnik.com. [Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 3 External Kalachakra] Reference
The ecliptic is the path in the sky of the Sun therefore only a certain number of constellations or signs "cross" the ecliptic. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference
Because of that, the coordinate system is aligned to the ecliptic, which is the plane the planets of the Solar System orbit in. From Wordnik.com. [Constellations don't work] Reference
That's the logic behind a novel proposal to search for extraterrestrial radio signals in a tiny segment of the sky called the ecliptic band. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Between these angles there should exist an angle of 47°, double the obliquity of the ecliptic, that is to say, the excursion of the sun in declination: now. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference
The ascending node is the one when the planet is moving northwards, and the line of intersection of the orbital plane with the ecliptic is the line of nodes. From Wordnik.com. [Kepler]
In astronomy, the zodiac is the ring of constellations that lines the ecliptic, which is the apparent path of the Sun across the sky over the course of the …. From Wordnik.com. [Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today] Reference
Enter the atmosphere exactly fifteen GP minutes from the present moment, at twenty degrees after meridian, as nearly as possible on the ecliptic, which is also our equator. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
Rather, it creeps along the circle shown here in orchid (that's what the crayon says), a circle called the ecliptic which falls roughly in the middle of the Zodiac constellations. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The intersections of the equator and the ecliptic are the '' vernal equinox '' (the date in. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
If circularly, in what | The plane of the ecliptic. plane?. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
"Two bandits at nine o'clock on level plane of ecliptic!" came the warning from the radar bridge. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt on Venus] Reference
In a similar way astronomers say that a star is a certain height above the plane of the ecliptic. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
But the moon does not always cross the ecliptic where the sun is, nor uniformly in the same part. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
"Change course three degrees starboard, one degree down on ecliptic plane," ordered Strong calmly. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt on Venus] Reference
Further, this plane of the ecliptic is to the celestial sphere what the sea-level is to the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
We have now only to go one step further to get our complete conception of the plane of the ecliptic. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
There are other planets in this system, all of them more or less conforming to the plane of the ecliptic. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
You hoisted your scout ship aloft under high-gee, cleared the ecliptic, then swung out of normal space and. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
Lance cut the ecliptic at a different angle than before, and Terra was farther along in her journey around Sol. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
Besides its annual revolution about the sun in the ecliptic, the earth turns round also on its own axis in 24 hours. From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
'The planet is surrounded by a slender flat ring everywhere distinct from its surface, and inclined to the ecliptic.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
We have seen (Art. 109) how it is possible to account physically for the plane of the ecliptic from the motions of the. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
"I think she's bearing about seventeen degrees to port of us, and about one-twenty-eight on the down-plane of the ecliptic.". From Wordnik.com. [Stand by for Mars!] Reference
The Earth's axis is inclined 63° 33´ to the plane of the ecliptic, and is always directed to the same point in the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
The obliquity of the ecliptic was accurately determined, and an arc of the meridian was measured between Syene and Alexandria. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
They were all in a straight line and parallel with the ecliptic; two of them were situated to the east, and one to the west of. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Earth's axis was directed at right angles to her orbit, and that the plane of the equator coincided with that of the ecliptic. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
"Twenty-four hours out, twenty-four hours back, ninety degrees to the ecliptic, and all the accelleration I can stand both ways.". From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
Hitherto we have only dealt with the lines of force proceeding from the sun equatorially, which lines form the plane of the ecliptic. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Ionian school, and taught the sphericity of the Earth, the obliquity of the ecliptic, and the true causes of eclipses of the Sun and Moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
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