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noun • Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC) • a faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus • a reptile genus known as flying dragons or flying lizards | ||||||||
42% | 6 | Shape of the Milky Way galaxy | ||||||
noun • a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center • a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle • a continuously accelerating change in the economy • ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center • a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops • flying downward in a helical path with a large radius adjective satellite • in the shape of a coil verb • to wind or move in a spiral course • form a spiral • move in a spiral or zigzag course | ||||||||
41% | 7 | The point in an elliptical orbit where the orbiting body is farthest from the body it is orbiting | ||||||
noun • apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter | ||||||||
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