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	Inclination - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		In particular, the inclination is one of the six orbital parameters describing the shape and orientation of a celestial orbit.
		It is the angular distance of the orbital plane from the plane of reference (usually the primary's equator or the ecliptic), normally stated in degrees.
		And in particular, for the Earth, the inclination or obliquity of the ecliptic is the angle between the plane of the ecliptic and the equator.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/i/n/c/Inclination.html (420 words)

	Inclination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In particular, the inclination is one of the six orbital parameters describing the shape and orientation of a celestial orbit.
		It is the angular distance of the orbital plane from the plane of reference (usually the primary's equator or the ecliptic), normally stated in degrees.
		In particular, for the Earth, the obliquity of the ecliptic is the angle between the plane of the ecliptic and the equator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inclination (643 words)

	Orbital inclination change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orbital inclination change is an orbital maneuver aimed at changing the inclination of an orbiting body's orbit.
		An important subtlety of performing an inclination change is that Keplerian orbital inclination is defined by the angle between ecliptic North and the vector normal to the orbit plane, (i.e.
		This means that inclination is always positive and is entangled with other orbital elements primarily the argument of periapsis which is in turn connected to the longitude of the ascending node.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orbital_inclination_change (377 words)

	Earth Observatory Glossary
		The elliptical path of a satellite orbit lies in a plane known as the orbital plane.
		Inclination is the angle between the equatorial plane and the orbital plane measured counter-clockwise at the ascending node.
		An inclination of 180 degrees would mean the satellite is orbiting the equator, but in the opposite direction of the Earth's rotation.
	eobglossary.gsfc.nasa.gov /Library/glossary.php3?xref=inclination (207 words)

	Cosmos: The SAO Encyclopedia: Orbital Inclination
		Along with the argument of perihelion and the ascending node, the orbital inclination (i) is one of the elements that must be specified in order to define the orientation of an elliptical orbit.
		Although the ecliptic provides a convenient reference plane from which to measure the orbital inclinations of planets in our Solar System, a different reference plane should be adopted for each of the planetary systems discovered around other stars.
		Note: Orbital inclination should not be confused with obliquity - the tilt of a planet's axis relative to the orbit.
	cosmos.swin.edu.au /entries/orbitalinclination/orbitalinclination.html?e=1 (252 words)

	inclination
		Orbital inclination (i) is the angle between the orbital plane of an object and a reference plane that passes through the body being orbited.
		The inclination of a planetary orbit in the Solar System is measured from the ecliptic (the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun).
		Axial inclination is the angle between a planet or moon's rotation axis and its orbit; in the case of a star, the reference plane is usually that of the celestial sphere.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/I/inclination.html (180 words)

	Orbital Mechanics
		Inclination is the angular distance between a satellite's orbital plane and the equator of its primary (or the ecliptic plane in the case of heliocentric, or sun centered, orbits).
		Polar orbits (PO) are orbits with an inclination of 90 degrees.
		Orbital transfer becomes more complicated when the object is to rendezvous with or intercept another object in space: both the interceptor and the target must arrive at the rendezvous point at the same time.
	www.braeunig.us /space/orbmech.htm (6414 words)

	AMSAT - Keplerian Elements in Detail
		The orbital plane always goes through the center of the earth, but may be tilted any angle relative to the equator.
		Inclination is the angle between the orbital plane and the equatorial plane.
		The intersection of the equatorial plane and the orbital plane is a line which is called the line of nodes.
	www.amsat.org /amsat-new/tools/keps_detail.php (2803 words)

	Orbital Operations Manual - Aligning, Syncing, and Docking with a Space Station
		An inclination of 90 degrees is an orbit that crosses over both the north and south poles and passes over the equator at two points.
		Inclination and LAN are both measures of the orientation of an orbital plane.
		The inclinations of Mir and the ISS is also quite different from that of the moon or any other planet, making them poor places from which to start interplanetary travels, because a large orbital plane change is required.
	smithplanet.com /stuff/orbiter/orbitaloperations.htm (10596 words)

	CSA - Resources
		Inclination is measured in degrees parallel to latitude.
		Have the students draw lines from the centre of a scaled Earth at angles representing their latitudes, the ISS inclination latitude, and other latitudes.
		The students can pick a latitude, follow the same procedures of drawing tangent lines, and find the length the hypotenuse line “H” (being the ISS line) would have to be to just meet with the horizon line for that latitude.
	www.space.gc.ca /asc/eng/educators/resources/observing-edu.asp (915 words)

	Spectrum of 100-kyr glacial cycle: Orbital inclination, not eccentricity -- Muller and MacDonald 94 (16): 8329 -- ...
		The dominant peak in the spectrum of the inclination is at 0.01
		The existence of the 100-kyr cycle of orbital inclination does not seem to have been previously noted by climatologists.
		The inclination i is the angle between this vector and the vector
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/94/16/8329 (3598 words)

	Glacial cycles and orbital inclination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ancient climate is recorded in sediment through change in the oxygen isotope ratio, delta(O-18), which is believed to reflect the percentage of the Earth's water frozen in ice.
		The existence of the 100 kyr cycle of orbital inclination does not seem to have been previously noticed by climatologists or astronomers.
		The only mechanism we have found that could link orbital inclination to climate is extraterrestrial accretion of meteoroids or dust.
	muller.lbl.gov /papers/scicorr.htm (475 words)

	The orbital inclination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Knowing that the accretion disk eclipse is partial but that the disk centre remains always visible can help to put constrains on the orbital inclination i of V893 Sco.
		Grazing disk eclipses then occur at inclinations as shown by the lower graph in Fig.
		Figure 4: Upper and lower limits for the orbital inclination of V893 Sco as a function of the mass ratio.
	www.lna.br /~albert/preprints/preprint04_99/node8.html (165 words)

	MLO 4 AB System Orbits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Although the initial display shows the system's actual orbital tilt (at an inclination of 128°) from the visual perspective of an observer on Earth, the orbital inclination of any planet that may be discovered someday around either star would likely be different from those of the habitable zone orbits depicted here.
		According to the new Sixth Catalog of Visual Orbits of Binary Stars, Stars A and B have an average separation of 12.6 AUs (a semi-major axis of 1.81" at a HIPPARCOS distance estimate of 20.74 ly) in a highly eccentric orbit (e= 0.58).
		The orbital period takes 42.15 years to complete and is inclined 128° from the perspective of an observer on Earth (Staffan Soderhjelm, 1999; and W.P. Hirst, 1950, page 458; and 1947).
	www.solstation.com /orbits/mlo4absys.htm (230 words)

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		EarthWatch requests authority to change the inclination of the orbital plane of QuickBird-1 from 52§ to 66§, and the inclination of QuickBird-2 from 52 to 98.
		In this Order, we conclude that we should also leave orbital inclination decisions regarding remote-sensing satellite systems to licensees, because they are in a better position to tailor their systems to meet the particular needs of their customers.
		This conclusion is based on the fact that the Bureau has found in other circumstances that a change in orbital inclination by itself does not increase the potential for interference, and because no one opposed EarthWatch's requested changes in orbital inclination.
	www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/International/Orders/2000/da000909.txt (1700 words)

	INCLINE
		The reason all the others have an inclination of 51.6 degrees is because that's the orbital inclination of ISS, and the Shuttles must use that inclination in order to rendezvous with ISS.
		Columbia's last mission was at 150nm with an orbital inclination of 39 degrees because it was a science flight, and in no way involved with ISS.
		BTW, the orbital inclination is the angle of the orbit relative to the equator, and has nothing to do with the angle of descent on re-entry.
	www.rense.com /general34/incline.htm (532 words)

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		This is another cataclysmic variable in which caution is needed in the interpretation of the `orbital elements'.
		The orbital eccentricity and time of periastron derived from the velocity-curve are in good agreement with the same quantities derived from the light-curve.
		The orbital elements are derived from a heterogeneous set of observations and slightly different values can be found for each element (including the period) for different selections of the observations to be used.
	www.chara.gsu.edu /CHARA/DoubleStars/SB8/notes05.html (7441 words)

	Does 51 Peg have an M dwarf Companion, Instead of a Planet ?
		If the orbital plane of the companion to 51 Peg is nearly face-on, the mass of the companion to 51 Peg could be much greater than 0.45 M
		is the inclination of the orbit (0 for face-on).
		This slow spin period for the star (compared to the planet's orbital period of 4.2 day) shows that the planet orbits the star faster than 51 Peg spins on axis.
	exoplanets.org /mdwarf.html (322 words)

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		The identification has been pursued by the orbital inclination, longitude of the ascending node, both reffered to the Laplace plane, objects Greenwich longitude and longitude drift using the method (Kirichenko & Klimik 1994).
		Fig.2 The position and orbital inclination of geostationary objects with subsatellite longitude on January 14, 1999.
		It is seen that the changes of declinations depends on an angle of orbital inclination of the satellite.
	www.mao.kiev.ua /ast/geo3_txt.htm (2067 words)

	Observing Earth Satellites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It can be characterised by stating the orbital altitude (height of the spacecraft above the Earth's surface) and the orbital inclination (the angle of the satellite's orbital plane to the Earth's equatorial plane).
		That is to say their orbital plane is fixed with respect to the Sun, so that the satellite passes overhead at the same local time each day.
		The orbital period is dictated by the satellites altitude.
	www.satobs.org /observe.html (1997 words)

	basic orbital mechanic questions - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The inclinations available from a given launch site are usually restricted by range safety (that is, places one does not want to drop pieces either on purpose or in case of abort).
		Florida launches are confined to a narrow range of inclinations by the requirement that they fly over the ocean, in case of a launch failure.
		Since there were no women on STS36, it must have been one of those 57 degree inclination missions (there are several of those) that she was on.
	www.bautforum.com /showthread.php?p=254284#post254284 (2576 words)

	Pluto Fact Sheet
		orbital velocity (km/s) 3.71 29.29 0.127 Orbit inclination (deg) 17.16 0.000 - Orbit eccentricity 0.2488 0.0167 14.899 Sidereal rotation period (hrs) -153.2928 23.9345 6.405 Length of day (hrs) 153.2820 24.0000 6.387 Obliquity to orbit (deg) 122.53 23.45 (2.451)
		Semimajor axis (AU) 39.48168677 Orbital eccentricity 0.24880766 Orbital inclination (deg) 17.14175 Longitude of ascending node (deg) 110.30347 Longitude of perihelion (deg) 224.06676 Mean longitude (deg) 238.92881 On 11 February 1999 at 11:22 UT (6:22 a.m.
		Mean distance from Pluto (km) 19,600 Sidereal orbit period (days) 6.38725 Sidereal rotation period (days) 6.38725 Orbital inclination to Pluto (deg) 0.0 Orbital eccentricity 0.0 Equatorial radius (km) 593 Mass (10
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /planetary/factsheet/plutofact.html (434 words)

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		Although he published new orbital elements for both components, the older elements are preferred for the primary because they are based on considerably more observations.
		The orbital elements given by Sahade & Ferrer are derived from the mean of the absorption lines of helium and H9 to H11, except that the value for V
		The epoch is the time of primary minimum, and the orbital elements are estimates from a plot of the velocity curve.
	www.chara.gsu.edu /CHARA/DoubleStars/SB8/notes04.html (7603 words)

	Orbital Elements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		An inclination of less than 90 degrees would mean that the satellite is in an orbit less than polar and is in a prograde orbit.
		An inclination of 90 degrees would mean the satellite crosses the Earth's equator at a right angle and crosses both poles in one orbit.
		An inclination of greater than 90 degrees would mean that the satellite is in less than a polar orbit and is in what is called a retrograde orbit.
	www.satobs.org /element.html (1006 words)

	[7.02] Moon's Orbital Inclination Pumped up by a Passing Protoplanet with Mars Size (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tracing the Moon's orbital evolution due to tidal interaction with the Earth back in time revealed that the Moon's orbital inclination relative to the Earth's equator has been larger than 10 degree throughout its history (e.g., Goldreich 1966).
		If the Moon have formed from a debris disk created by a giant impact, the orbital inclination should be within a few degrees (e.g., Ida et al.
		The origin of the large inclination was addressed by Touma and Wisdom (1998) and Ward and Canup (2000).
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v36n2/dda04/33.htm (256 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Eccentricity = 0.0 Orbital Inclination = 0 degrees
		Eccentricity = 0.0 Orbital Inclination = 30 degrees
		Eccentricity = 0.0 Orbital Inclination = 60 degrees
	www.phy.ohiou.edu /~bak/CRC4a.html (96 words)

	Dawn Gelino's AAS Poster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The orbital inclination can be combined with the observed mass function to determine the mass, and therefore the nature, of the primary object.
		The data are the same as in Fig 2 and show a maximum to minimum amplitude of 0.2 magnitudes.
		Since the three light curves are all reasonably well fit by models with the same orbital inclination angle, indicates that dilution of the ellipsoidal variations by light from the accretion disk is negligible.
	mamacass.ucsd.edu /~dgelino/aasposter.html (1708 words)

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