"Planetary radius" refers to the measurement of the size or distance from the center to the outer edge of a planet. It tells us how big a planet is, similar to how we measure the distance from the center of a circle to its outer edge.
Sentences with «planetary radius»
Slow rotation requires that both the Rossby deformation radius and the Rhines length exceed planetary radius, which occurs for planets with rotation rate > 20 days. (haqqmisra.net)
We compare the transit duration distribution for different subsets of Kepler planet candidates and discuss tentative trends with planetary radius and multiplicity. (arxiv.org)
In fact the magnetic dipole is shifted from the center of the planet towards the south rotational pole by as much as one third of the planetary radius. (conservativehome.blogs.com)