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The square of the period of a planet's orbit is proportional to the cube of that planet's semi major axis; ...

An area in the sky where an antenna cannot track a spacecraft because the required angular rates would be too ...

Kilogram.

Kilohertz.

A distance equal to 1000 parsecs.

Regions in the main belt of asteroids where few or no asteroids are found. They were named after the scientist ...

A microwave travelling wave tube power amplifier used in transmitters.

Kilometers.

Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A disk-shaped region about 30 to 100 AU from the sun considered to be the source of the short-period comets.