areosynchronous

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adjective

Having a rate of revolution that matches the rotation period of Mars, and thus remaining over the same point on that planet's surface. (of the orbit of a satellite)

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Meanings

adjectiveareosynchronous (not comparable)
  1. not comparablespace flightHaving a rate of revolution that matches the rotation period of Mars, and thus remaining over the same point on that planet's surface. (of the orbit of a satellite)

    […] the ships dropped a string of comm-relay satellites in areosynchronous orbit.

    1986, Thomas Wren, chapter 14, in The Doomsday Effect,, New York: Baen Books, page 195
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    I can’t think of her [the spaceship] as an object. Not when I’m living inside her, sailing serenely along in areosynchronous orbit.

    2004, Elizabeth Bear, Hammered, New York: Bantam, Book 2, p. 180

Origin

From areo- + synchronous; compare geosynchronous.

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