Word: orbiting
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...good enough observations have been obtained it may be possible that a sufficiently accurate orbit can be computed so that in some later year, when the object is again very near the earth, it can be picked up by astronomers. However, perturbations may make this impossible...
...Orbit Changed...
...Eventually the object may be thrown into a longer orbit, with a long period, or even ejected from the planetary system. The chance that it will actually collide with one of the planets is, of course, very remote, although eventually it might happen...
...quite untrue that Edward of Wales always popped off to a night club. He often popped off to rove restlessly and sympathetically about the slums, exclaiming at scenes of squalor "How ghastly!", but he did pop off, often with Americans and nearly always to points beyond the orbit of those responsible British states men over whom the new King must now reign while they rule. For the sheer energy of this light, lean King the ruled class have a special liking, because to them so many British employers seem languid and over fed. Edward VIII is appropriately a "snappy" King...
...address is Harvard, may be called a faculty and college of mathematics. The endowment required for one of the new scholarships is $25,000. President Conant has been eager to attract to Cambridge promising students from regions separated from the Eastern colleges by expensive distances and naturally within the orbit of local or State universities. The new scholarships will be a continuation and broadening of the prize fellowships already open to Middle Westerners, the first fruits of Dr. Conant's journey in search of talent--genius preferred...