How to Use heliocentric in a Sentence

heliocentric

adjective

• Galileo proposed the heliocentric theory that the Earth goes around the sun.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• By that time there was little dispute over the heliocentric nature of the solar system.
  — Jeffrey Wilkerson, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2016
• 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
• The heliocentric model was advanced by Nicolas Copernicus back in the 1500's.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2014
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• From the Copernican heliocentric model of the universe and electricity to penicillin and the discovery of the structure of DNA, these developments transform our globe — and another one has been reached.
  — Deborah Wince-Smith, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Shortly after its discovery, the object left Earth orbit in 2003, returning to a heliocentric orbit.
  — Doug Adler, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• He's always been a complex character, either by being a heliocentric player who the Rockets tailored their entire offense around, or by changing his mind so frequently, he's become a punchline in the international media.
  — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Briggs is a singular, heliocentric talent unlike few others in Southern Section girls’ basketball.
  — Eric Sondheimer columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Eventually, more data, combined with more expansive thinking, ushered in a better model—a heliocentric solar system based on elliptical orbits.
  — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• In the 1530s, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed his own heliocentric model based on astronomical observations.
  — Gary Simon, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2023
• Unfortunately, the geocentric predictions were more accurate — with fewer and smaller observational discrepancies — than the heliocentric model.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024