- Body orbiting a planet - Orbiting body - Planet orbiting another - Spacecraft in orbit - Took seat left in elite revolutionary body - Type of dish from small town that depends on another - An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful
person; hence, an obsequious dependent.
- A celestial body in orbit around a star - Celestial body - Celestial body revolving around the sun - Celestial object - Earth etc - Earth etc. - Earth, say
- Minor body orbiting the sun - Minor Planet - Planetoid - Small celestial body - So I rated wrong minor planet - A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets
whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also
planetoids and minor planets.
- any one of five points in the plane of a system of
two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon
system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are
approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving
in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will
remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system
and not fall toward either body.