# orbital speed

> speed at which it orbits around the barycenter of a system, usually around a more massive body. It can be used to refer to either the mean orbital speed, i.e. the average speed as it completes an orbit, or the speed at a particular point in its orbit

**Wikidata**: [Q200924](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q200924)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_speed)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/orbital-speed


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)