What is "orbiting"

Usage examples of "orbiting".

Adikor, speaking directly to the adjudicator, before the orbiting Bolbay blocked his line of sight again.

The bogie itself had arrived just three weeks earlier and was orbiting the ice ball at a respectable distance.

The carriers had been at sea since the war began, cruising back and forth to avoid the orbiting Soviet ocean-reconnaissance satellites.

Orbiting slowly over the Gree landscape, watching everything that happened there.

Mac watched the holo display as it enacted the operation, a strobe of light flashing over the capital as the thin red line representing Gyton shot around the planet and encountered the orbiting station refitting the fleet.

Dujuv, orbiting in close, like a planet, and then a flock of heets orbiting further away but trying to get in, like the Kiuper Belt, and then a few girls hanging around at the very outer edges, like the Oort Cloud.

It appeared to be a cluster or approximately twenty hyperboloids of varying sizes and design, slowly orbiting each other in a manner that suggested they were not physically connected.

Blinded to the realization that the Ixia were here, on Risthmus, not orbiting above.

There would be a multitude of disputes, often intentionally misinterpreted, to resolve territorial and jurisdictional differences that were already caught up in and molded by the dynamics of orbiting planets, and their satellites and connecting space-ways.

Bram dated the change in Kerthin from the visit to the orbiting tree, when she had covered up for Pite, and that had been months ago.

But Xenia could make out a dim cloud of green, swathing the Earth: It was an orbiting forest, Trees that had survived the collision, still drawing their sustenance from the curdled air with superconductor roots.

In all his life he had never been anywhere as unequivocally alien as here, inside a giant torus of cold, compressed gas orbiting a black hole - itself in orbit around a brown dwarf body light years from the nearest star - its exterior studded with ships - most of them the jaggedly bulbous shapes of Affront craft - and full, in the main, of happy, space-faring Affronters and their collection of associated victim-species.

C and C chopper orbiting between the target and that line of arty fire.

Marks, with a four-plane division of Hellcats, was orbiting bis assigned station twenty miles north-northeast of the force at 6,000 feet with radios silent.

Twenty years from now, the Exploratorium will be hosting a party on a planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani.