commensurate orbit Comparison Table

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commensurate orbit comparison table

Subject is a kind of has period has definition

elliptical orbit harmonic motion proportional to the orbital period

commensurate orbit elliptical orbit an integral multiple of that of the other body A term applied to two bodies orbiting around a common barycenter when the period of one is an integral multiple of that of the other.

Subject	is a kind of	has period	has definition
elliptical orbit	harmonic motion	proportional to the orbital period
commensurate orbit	elliptical orbit	an integral multiple of that of the other body	A term applied to two bodies orbiting around a common barycenter when the period of one is an integral multiple of that of the other.

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