How to Use heliocentric in a Sentence
heliocentric
adjective- Galileo proposed the heliocentric theory that the Earth goes around the sun.
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The second stage of the rocket will conduct a total of three engine burns to send the car to a heliocentric orbit around the sun.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2018
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Of course, there's also the matter of Young's role in this, as the Hawks are playing a near heliocentric system around him.
—Morten Jensen, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
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The Mavericks don’t have a true number two star, which allows Doncic to be the sun in the heliocentric offense.
—Tom Rende, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
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By that time there was little dispute over the heliocentric nature of the solar system.
—Jeffrey Wilkerson, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2016
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One player can take over a game on the offensive end, but there is no such thing as a heliocentric defense (with apologies to Joel Embiid).
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
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The heliocentric model was advanced by Nicolas Copernicus back in the 1500's.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2014
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The heliocentric speed is defined as the meteor’s speed relative to the sun, which is a more accurate way to determine an object’s orbit.
—Megan Marples, CNN, 13 Apr. 2022
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That allowed the defense to remain set and spaced with more ease and didn’t capitalize on the attention and threat Doncic can create — even without possession — as the heliocentric star of the offense.
—Dallas News, 2 June 2022
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And once any lingering stages used to propel a spacecraft have been spent, they're discarded in Earth's orbit or drift off and eventually join a heliocentric orbit.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2020
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Mission managers will now send a command to the spacecraft, which is presently trailing Earth in a heliocentric orbit about 150 million kilometers away, to turn off the spacecraft's transmitters.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2018
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But his pace for a midseason suspension — and then some — will be costly to the Mavericks, ever reliant on their heliocentric superstar.
—Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2022
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Indiana lacks a heliocentric offensive focal point, and Carlisle expects different players to lead the team in scoring throughout the season.
—Andy Yamashita, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2021
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Shortly after its discovery, the object left Earth orbit in 2003, returning to a heliocentric orbit.
—Doug Adler, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2020
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Thus a heliocentric solar system might well have been a constant of astronomical thought from Babylon and classical Greece onwards.
—The Economist, 5 July 2018
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Galileo fully and publicly supported the Copernican theory of a heliocentric universe, and condemnation from the Vatican was swift and harsh.
—Gary Simon, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2023
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He's lionized for advocating a heliocentric view of our solar system, spurning Church doctrine and becoming a heretic.
—Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2018
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Typically, during interplanetary missions, a rocket's upper stage is sent into a heliocentric orbit, keeping it away from the Earth and its Moon.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2022
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This heliocentric theory violated the prevailing belief dating back to Aristotle and engrained in Christian theology that the sun and planets rotate around a stationary earth.
—Joel Zinberg, National Review, 9 June 2021
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Briggs is a singular, heliocentric talent unlike few others in Southern Section girls’ basketball.
—Eric Sondheimer columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
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Think of the difference between medieval astronomy and astronomy after the Copernican Revolution, which changed our understanding of the universe from being a geocentric to a heliocentric one.
—Ira Bedzow, Forbes, 6 May 2022
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In the 1530s, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed his own heliocentric model based on astronomical observations.
—Gary Simon, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2023
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Unfortunately, the geocentric predictions were more accurate — with fewer and smaller observational discrepancies — than the heliocentric model.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
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