Sentences with phrase «earth masses close»

Not exact matches

The rising of the masses and the socialisation of Mankind is associated with the closed shape of the earth, the mechanics of generation and the psychic properties of human matter.

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.

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.»

55 Cancri's innermost planet, weighing in at more than 10 earth masses — meaning it could have a rocky or icy core — lies closer to its star than Mercury does to our own.

Models suggest that rising sea levels will shift water towards the poles, drawing mass in closer to the Earth's axis and making it spin faster.

The star system closest to our sun has a planet — Proxima b — similar to Earth's mass.

Many extrasolar planetary systems have large close - in planets, from rocky super-Earths (about two to 10 times the mass of Earth) to gassy mini-Neptunes or hot Jupiters.

Another adverse condition in the study of high - mass stars is the distance from the Earth; while the forming regions of low - mass stars are about 500 light years away from the Earth, those of high - mass stars are farther and even the closest one in the Orion Nebula is about 1500 light years away.

The exoplanet (a planet in another solar system) is about six times the mass of Jupiter and orbits about 40 percent closer to its star, dubbed HD 102272, than Earth does around the sun.

Of the 10 closest star systems to Earth, only one does not contain a low - mass star (the Sirius system consists of a blue giant and an ultra-compact white dwarf, the remnant of a Sun - like star).

But a new discovery published August 24 in Nature hits closer to home, with an Earth - mass planet in the habitable zone of its star.

While the newly described planet K2 - 18c is closer to its star, and probably too hot to be in the habitable zone, like K2 - 18b it also appears to be a Super-Earth meaning it has a mass similar to Earth.

The models show that the Moon acquires about the final half of its mass from melt condensed in the inner portions of the disk, close to the Earth and just inside the Moon's initial orbit.

The two binary stars A and B revolve around their common centre of mass in a relatively close orbit, while the third star, Proxima Centauri, is 0.22 light years away, more than 12,500 times the distance between the Sun and Earth.

A planet so close to its star — just 5 % of the Earth - sun distance — might be expected to be a red - hot cinder, but Proxima Centauri is just one - eighth the mass of the sun and burns much less brightly.

«The three planets are unlike anything in our solar system, with masses 7 - 8 times the mass of Earth and orbits that take them very close to their host star,» explains UC Berkeley graduate student Lauren Weiss.

If an exoplanet is close to the same mass of Earth it's called «earthlike» in press releases and the news media.

Traditionally, astronomers focus on how close a particular exoplanet's mass is to Earth's, and whether its orbit is in a «Goldilocks zone,» i.e. where water can exist in liquid form.

All were close to or within the habitable zone and were Earth - sized, but their masses and densities are not known, meaning we can not be sure if they completely fit the criteria for life to emerge.

RAMIREZ - RUIZ: Neutron stars are only about the size of San Francisco Bay, which I live close by, yet they pack in as much mass as the Sun — about 330,000 times the mass of the Earth.

Using a lower bound of two Earth - masses, astronomers have been increasingly relying on the label «super-Earth» for extra-Solar planets that are probably too large to be very «Earth - like,» despite their search for planets with characteristics closer to the Solar System's four rocky inner, «terrrestrial» planets than gas giants.

Earthquake effects actually work the other way: mass tends to get redistributed closer to the centre of mass of the earth.

This is actually evidence against AGW, because Venus takes 243 days to rotate so is baked on one side facing the sun without respite for all that time, and is closer to the sun that the Earth, and its total atmospheric surface pressure of 93 atmospheres (96.5 % CO2), so whereas the mass of Earth's atmosphere is 10 tons per square metre of surface area; on Venus it's 930 tons per square metre, mainly CO2.

Around the monthly new moon, when the earth is closest to the sun (contributing a gravitational tug about half that of the moon alone) and the moon is between sun and earth to produce the maximum «unidirectional» tug on earths mass.

The oceans bulge out because the water is closer to the Moon than the greater mass of the Earth, and is therefore being pulled more strongly toward it.

[update] From the realclimate article I mentioned: «In one sense, Venus is rather similar to Earth: it has nearly the same mass as Earth, and while its orbit is somewhat closer to the Sun, that effect is more than made up for by the sunlight reflected from Venus» thick cloud cover.