Ummm. Isn’t “the Earth’s orbit” the path of the earth around the sun?

[gaolaitch@cupoftea.social]

Ummm. Isn’t “the Earth’s orbit” the path of the earth around the sun? Would not ‘Artemis II leaves orbit around the earth’ be more accurate?

#Artemis

Artemis II blasts closer to the far side of the Moon

The mission's last, big push on its lunar journey takes humans out of the Earth's orbit for the first time since 1972.

BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@Gaolaitch biweekly

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@Gaolaitch bit easier in German: Erdorbit is (usually) the one of satellites, Orbit der Erde is the one around the sun, both are genitive constructions, but the agglutinised one can have a distinct meaning

[gaolaitch@cupoftea.social]

@mirabilos I do not understand most of what you have written, sorry.

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@Gaolaitch ok, sorry. What I meant is, it can have both meanings, and English unhappily doesn’t have a grammatical construction to make them easily distinguishable.

[gaolaitch@cupoftea.social]

I see the BBC has changed from using ‘Earth’s orbit’ to ‘Earth orbit’, per NASA usage.