Statistics for Orbit and Space Vocabulary

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Description	Term	% Correct
A natural celestial object orbiting a planet	Moon	83%
Any object in space orbiting a celestial body	Satellite	52%
The point along an Earth orbit, which is farthest from the planet	Apogee	39%
The point along an Earth orbit, which is closest to the planet	Perigee	30%
How circular an orbit is around it’s parent	Eccentricity	17%
The point in an orbit farthest from the parent body	Apoapsis	13%
The altitude where it is said Earth ends and Space begins (name)	Karman Line	13%
The point in an orbit closest to the parent body	Periapsis	13%
The angle an orbit possesses relative to the planet’s equatorial line	Inclination	9%
The time is takes an object to complete it’s orbit	Orbital Period	9%
An orbit which is perpendicular to the parent object’s equator	Polar Orbit	9%
The range at which an object is effected by an objects gravity	Sphere of Influence	9%
a type of orbit where the object takes the same time to complete an orbit as the parent takes to rotate once, both moving in the same direction	Synchronous Orbit	9%
The angle that Earth, leans relative to it’s orbit	23.5	4%
The Imaginary line at which a planet rotates about	Axis of rotation	4%
The principle stating the faster an object is moving, the more a input of force will affect it’s orbit	Oberth effect	4%
The geometrical surface defined by an object’s orbit	Orbital Plane	4%