Sentences with phrase «earth masses by»

Models have predicted that planets forming here should quickly reach a mass of 10 Earth masses by accumulating most of the solid material in the vicinity.

Not exact matches

These gravitational waves were generated by two black holes — eight and 14 times the mass of the sun — merging together 1.4 billion light years away from Earth.

Too, it need be considered why Jupiter is where it is and its size, for it's huge size (mass) has a strong gravitational effect on meteors and asteroids going near it, causing them to either be absorbed by it or deflecting them away from the earth.

However, the Rosina mass spectrometer aboard Rosetta found that the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the comet is far greater than that found on Earth, adding to the growing body of evidence that the water on Earth was delivered not by comets, as previously thought, but by asteroids.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

Not only was the individual lifted out of the social mass, but within the individual a profound discrimination was made between his nature as a mere native of this earth and his nature transformed by the divine Spirit.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

God has admitted to planning mass murder around the globe by killing every single man, woman, and child on earth on judgment day.

This is that, under the combined influence of two irresistible forces of planetary dimensions (the geographical curve of the Earth, by which we are physically compressed, and the psychic curve of Thought, which draws us closer together), the power of reflection of the human mass, which means its degree of humanization, far from having come to a stop, is entering a critical period of intensification and renewed growth.

Thirdly, the Christian nations, made economically strong by both their political imperialism and their advanced state of technology, have not only constructed the weapons for nuclear war but also been most to blame for the selfish exploitation of the non-renewable resources of the earth, for the accumulating mass pollution, for the gross interference with the delicate ecology of the planet.

The successive mass extinctions and even the regular extinction of species by more gradual means throughout the earth's history would suggest that time is indeed limited for H0mo sapiens.

Turn the tables and try to compare people who believe in gravity is caused by the mass of 2 objects to believing fairies are holding are feet to the earth.

A close parallel is observable between a comment by an early protagonist of the theory, Dorwin Cartwright, who in 1949 suggested that, «it is conceivable that one persuasive person could, through the use of mass media, bend the world's population to his will,» (3) and the 1979 affirmation by NRB Executive Secretary Ben Armstrong, «I believe that God has raised up this powerful technology of radio and television expressly to reach every man, woman, boy, and girl on earth with the even more powerful message of the gospel.»

You can thump your chest and roar your bs «alpha male wan na be» roar all you like, but in reality land of USA and Earth 2016, pulling yourself up by your own boot straps is something rich people tell poor people to keep them hoping that maybe, just maybe, someday if I try hard enough... It's little more than a ploy to keep the masses from rebelling.

(Halley based his calculations on a mistaken result by Isaac Newton regarding the relative masses of the moon and Earth, leading Halley to grossly underestimate Earth's mass.)

The first and second planets from the dwarf star are probably less than 15 percent water by mass, still far wetter than Earth, the researchers found.

Th experiment suggests that enhanced UV - B at the end of the Permian, caused by ozone depletion from volcanic eruptions, could have contributed to Earth's largest mass extinction.

«This causes a shakeup in the fish family tree, which indicates that the ancestor shared by all ray - finned fishes lived tens of millions of years after previously thought, maybe in the aftermath of a mass extinction event around 360 million years ago that decimated many other groups,» said Friedman, an associate curator at the U-M Museum of Paleontology and an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Essentially, by dropping this dense lithospheric anchor, there has been an upward bobbing of the entire land mass across hundreds of kilometres,» said Professor Oğuz H. Göğüş of the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), lead author of a study reporting the findings published in Nature Communications this month.

The discovery of G2, which was estimated to have the mass of three Earths, was announced in January 2012 by Stefan Gillessen of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.

Led by Renu Malhotra, a Regents» Professor of Planetary Sciences in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Lab, the team found that the four Kuiper Belt Objects with the longest known orbital periods revolve around the Sun in patterns most readily explained by the presence of a hypothetical «Planet Nine» approximately ten times the mass of Earth.

The orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency, is currently out of contact with Earth because of its location, so observers will not be able to see any coronal mass ejections caused by this morning's flares until 10:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), Battams wrote on Twitter.

The founders estimate that printing parts in space could reduce the structural mass of objects by at least 30 percent, because the objects would not need to survive Earth's gravity or the extreme G - forces of launching into orbit aboard a rocket.

James Castle and John Rodgers of Clemson University think that such algal blooms — triggered by warming water or an increase in nutrients — might be behind the five largest mass extinctions in Earth's history.

According to the analysis, Tau Ceti is surrounded by five planets that weigh between two and six Earth masses and take between 14 and 640 days to orbit the star.

The time it takes for Earth to complete one rotation is affected by anything that changes the distribution of the planet's mass relative to its axis of rotation.

In 2016, astronomers discovered an Earth - mass planet around Proxima Centauri, but the planet, blasted by radiation and fierce stellar winds, seems unlikely to be habitable.

Instead the team used data from a satellite called the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), which measures changes in Earth's gravitational field that are caused by changes in mass.

These are about 5 to 10 times the mass of Earth, and we find them by looking at the gravitational wobble that the planet induces in the star.

Many scientists currently believe that the mass extinction of life on Earth around 65m years ago was caused by a 110km - wide asteroid that hit Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

«We'll find an Earth - mass planet by 2010,» Laughlin predicts, «and an Earth - mass planet that's potentially habitable by 2012.»

Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out — by far the largest of this planet's five known mass extinctions.

Although theirs is perhaps the best - known mass extinction on Earth, by the author's account, the dinosaurs» reign was a massive success story — they thrived on the planet for more than 150 million years, and their descendants are the more than 10,000 species of birds that occupy almost every corner of the world today.

This new map allows scientists to determine the age of large swaths of the second largest mass of ice on Earth, an area containing enough water to raise ocean levels by about 20 feet.

The sun keeps Earth in orbit not by exerting a physical force on it, but because its mass distorts the surrounding space and forces Earth to move that way.

Researchers have monitored changes in the distribution of Earth's mass since the 1970s by measuring how its gravity affects satellites» orbits.

Along with Mars 2020, STMD is hard at work, advancing promising technology for potential infusion into these Mars missions including: Heat - shield for Extreme Entry Environment, a tailorable, woven thermal protection system that would reduce entry loads and greatly reduce heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like GPS.

Earth whirls around the sun at a speed determined by its distance, the sun's mass and gravity's strength, which is a universal constant of nature.

They investigated life history data of nearly 1400 bird species and found that avian life span varies considerably across the entire Earth, and that much of this variation can be explained by the species» body mass and clutch size and by the local diversity of predator species.

New investigations by geoscientists of the University of Cologne in cooperation with the University of Bonn and the Jacobs University Bremen have shown that large land masses did indeed exist on Earth 2.7 billion years ago

The huge gravity well created by the sun is itself warped by the smaller gravity well of Earth; Earth's well, in turn, is dented by the mass of the moon.

According to Einstein, the rate at which Earth falls toward the sun should be determined not only by its mass, but also by its gravitational energy.

By examining infrared data taken earlier by the Spitzer Space Telescope, they discovered a swath of dust particles ranging in size from 0.1 to 20 microns (finer than a split hair) that added up to the mass of a large asteroid and, based on their warmth, were strewn about 1.8 Earth — sun distances from the staBy examining infrared data taken earlier by the Spitzer Space Telescope, they discovered a swath of dust particles ranging in size from 0.1 to 20 microns (finer than a split hair) that added up to the mass of a large asteroid and, based on their warmth, were strewn about 1.8 Earth — sun distances from the staby the Spitzer Space Telescope, they discovered a swath of dust particles ranging in size from 0.1 to 20 microns (finer than a split hair) that added up to the mass of a large asteroid and, based on their warmth, were strewn about 1.8 Earth — sun distances from the star.

The satellites observed the pulses in the wake of an October 2003 magnetic storm triggered by a coronal mass ejection — a plasma spitball shot out by the sun — that slammed into Earth's magnetosphere.

What they found through their analyses was that the relatively «dry» inner planets (labeled «b» and «c» on this image) were consistent with having less than 15 percent water by mass (for comparison, Earth is 0.02 percent water by mass).

But as far as they are concerned, «the two largest mass extinctions in Earth history at the K - T and P - T boundaries were both caused by catastrophic collisions with chondritic meteoroids.»

All anthropogenic projects influence forces acting in Earth's crust, for example by adding or removing mass, so we shouldn't be surprised that Earth responds to these changes and that in some cases earthquakes are the response.»

Earth has experienced more than a dozen mass extinction events, when the great diversity of life on Earth disappeared and was replaced by a flora or fauna often entirely unlike what had come before.

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

By shifting the earliest dinosauromorphs» first appearance toward the present, the findings suggest that they appeared only after ecosystems had largely recovered from the end - of - the - Permian mass extinctions, says Paul Olsen, a paleontologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.