<![CDATA[Ummm. Isn’t “the Earth’s orbit” the path of the earth around the sun?]]>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?

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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.

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BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/53592b0e-fec7-4f16-98bd-8d78009c8ec5/ummm.-isn-t-the-earth-s-orbit-the-path-of-the-earth-around-the-sunRSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 07:43:35 GMTFri, 03 Apr 2026 11:48:59 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Ummm. Isn’t “the Earth’s orbit” the path of the earth around the sun? on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:19:50 GMT]]>I see the BBC has changed from using ‘Earth’s orbit’ to ‘Earth orbit’, per NASA usage.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cupoftea.social/users/Gaolaitch/statuses/116343333874468260https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cupoftea.social/users/Gaolaitch/statuses/116343333874468260Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:19:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ummm. Isn’t “the Earth’s orbit” the path of the earth around the sun? on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:14:01 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.mirbsd.org/users/mirabilos/statuses/01KN9M7FN8GEXQKTGAWF760SZWhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.mirbsd.org/users/mirabilos/statuses/01KN9M7FN8GEXQKTGAWF760SZWFri, 03 Apr 2026 12:14:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ummm. Isn’t “the Earth’s orbit” the path of the earth around the sun? on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:09:02 GMT]]>@mirabilos I do not understand most of what you have written, sorry.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cupoftea.social/users/Gaolaitch/statuses/116340696214759422https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cupoftea.social/users/Gaolaitch/statuses/116340696214759422Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:09:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ummm. Isn’t “the Earth’s orbit” the path of the earth around the sun? on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:07:31 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.mirbsd.org/users/mirabilos/statuses/01KN9KVJ99B3T0RY7TXVA3KVPKhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.mirbsd.org/users/mirabilos/statuses/01KN9KVJ99B3T0RY7TXVA3KVPKFri, 03 Apr 2026 12:07:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ummm. Isn’t “the Earth’s orbit” the path of the earth around the sun? on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:05:54 GMT]]>@Gaolaitch biweekly

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