Orbit

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How it's built
What it can do
Where it's used

An orbit is the curved path that one object takes around another object in space, held in place by gravitational attraction. The most familiar example is Earth's orbit around the Sun, but moons orbit planets, satellites orbit Earth, and even distant stars orbit around massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.

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