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- noun astronomy The
surface (plane ) that contains anorbit .
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- noun (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting
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“Guglielmini's theory was right, in considering the absolute path of the falling body (apart from the resistance of the air) as elliptical, or approximately parabolical, and the orbital plane as passing a little north of the vertical, through the centre of attraction, while the errors in his formulæ, afterwards repeated by Olbers, served to incite Gauss and Laplace to develop the correct theory of relative motion.”
--The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
November 7, 2011