With a highly elliptical, 10,500-year orbit, Sedna is now actually relatively close.

Chandra's highly elliptical orbit allows it to observe continuously for up to 55 hours of its 65 hour orbital period.

There is no literary charm; the sentences are mostly compressed and highly elliptical, to the point sometimes of obscurity.

To overcome the deficiencies of polar viewing from high altitude orbits, the highly elliptical orbit was developed.

There is a persisting tendency to attribute the work's highly elliptical quality to its having been composed from fragments.

All this, despite Pluto's steady retreat from the sun as it followed its 273-year, highly elliptical orbit.

Quietly, he talked about the difficulty of reaching Cruithne, with its highly elliptical and tilted-up orbit.

The highly elliptical orbit suggested that the gravity of an unseen object farther away from the star was pulling the planet outward.

The neutron star is usually in a wide highly elliptical orbit around the Be star.

Their orbit is highly elliptical, with an eccentricity of 0.62 (62%).