Diagram of Brooks comet ... five quantities which are called the elements of the orbit. The plane of the comet orbit in space is defined by itsrelation with respect to the ecliptic, and it ...

PROF. SIMON SCHAFFER:Now here's a diagram, that Newton himself made, of the path of the comet, if it's one comet. PROF. SIMON SCHAFFER:You see here that it was approaching the orbit of the Earth ...