major-axes in English
noun
1
the longer axis of an ellipse, passing through its foci.
The major axis of the ellipse will be along the East-West line and the minor axis will be North-South.
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1. A Classical Kuiper belt object, also called a cubewano (/ ˌ k juː b iː ˈ w ʌ n oʊ / "QB1-o"), is a low-eccentricity Kuiper belt object (KBO) that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with Neptune.Cubewanos have orbits with semi-major axes in the 40–50 AU range and, unlike Pluto, do not cross Neptune's orbit.That is, they have low-eccentricity and