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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c937g7nd5x4o

[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.