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Elongation Terminology

The student is shown a schematic of the Earth and another object in either a superior or inferior orbit and is asked to name various positions in the object's orbit (opposition, quadrature or conjunction for superior orbits, inferior/superior conjunction or greatest elongation for inferior orbits).

keywords: superior orbit, inferior orbit, opposition, quadrature, conjunction, inferior conjunction, superior conjunction, greatest elongation

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