Sentences with phrase «earth masses for»

We have the technology at hand to stabilize our instrumentation to get down to about three Earth masses for planets in the habitable zones around stars.

Not exact matches

REVELATION CHAPTER SIX And he open the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of GOD and for the testimony they held and they cried out with a loud voice, how long O LORD holy and true do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto them and it was said unto them that they should rest a little season until their fellow servant and their brethren should be slain as they were should be fulfilled.Under racial profiling many BLACK AMERICANS were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported to AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the SUDAN and in the CONGO.

Religion is at it's saddest and most fearful when it treats this earth and itself as an mass evacuation plan for the next place.

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.

But it's a good sell for the uneducated masses that cover Earth.

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.

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.»

Calculations indicate that in several ways it is quite an Earth - like planet: its radius is 1.2 to 2.5 times that of Earth; its mass is 3.1 to 4.3 times greater; and, crucially, its orbit lies within its star's «Goldilocks zone», which means its surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water - and therefore potentially life - to exist on its surface.

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.

But few authorities are planning for catastrophic solar storms — gigantic eruptions of mass and energy from the sun that disrupt Earth's magnetic field.

The surprise findings tell scientists something about past extinctions and Earth's future prospects as climate change, habitat destruction and pollution set us up for Earth's sixth mass extinction.

Volcano - fueled holes in Earth's ozone layer 252 million years ago may have repeatedly sterilized large swaths of forest, setting the stage for the world's largest mass extinction event.

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.

Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft launched on the Space Launch System (SLS) would rendezvous with the captured asteroid mass in lunar orbit and collect samples for return to Earth.

For more than a decade these Earth - observing satellites have provided some of the first environmental measurements on a global scale, including large - scale changes in the mass of polar ice.

This is Wilson's audacious proposal to stave off the coming biological apocalypse, the sixth mass extinction event, which he outlines in Half - Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life.

With knowledge only of the luminosity of the star (1/600 that of the sun), the mass of the planet (1.3 times that of Earth), and the length of its orbit (11.2 days), the team was able to predict that, with a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surface.

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.

As for the November 4 event, it was never a threat, because the accompanying coronal mass ejection was not pointed toward Earth.

Such compensation for mass is commonly found on planetary bodies, including on Earth.

A new theory suggests that algae might be to blame for the Earth's greatest mass extinctions.

To identify a truly Earthlike exoplanet with the potential for life, astronomers need to confirm three essential attributes: an atmosphere that contains life - supporting molecules such as oxygen and water, plus a size and mass similar to Earth's.

Scientists also claim that the impact of the asteroid would have filled Earth's atmosphere with sulphur trioxide, subsequently creating a gas cloud that would have caused a mass amount of sulphuric acid rain to fall in just a few days, making the surface of the ocean too acidic for upper ocean creatures to live.

As the size of the planets we looked for decreased, the number that we found increased: We found more planets with 3 times the mass of the Earth than planets with 10 times Earth's mass, more planets 10 times as massive than 100 times, and so on.

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.

In a recent study, Mathias Trachsel (Dept. of Biology, University of Bergen) and Atle Nesje (Dept. of Earth Science, University of Bergen and Uni Research Climate) used simple statistical models to assess and quantify the relative importance of summer temperature and winter precipitation for annual mass balances of eight Scandinavian glaciers.

The planet is rocky, of a similar mass to Earth, and temperate — all conditions that are promising for life.

«This planet candidate is our best bet for the next few decades, maybe even forever, to directly image an Earth - mass planet in the habitable zone,» says Heller.

Satellite measurements and a model of how efficiently maize converts that light to mass, reveal that solar brightening, an increase in the sunlight penetrating the atmosphere and reaching Earth, accounted for 27 % of the yield increase U.S. Corn Belt farmers have observed between 1984 and 2013, researchers report today in Nature Climate Change.

«Despite the fact that the moon is only about 1 percent of the Earth's mass,» Weiss says, «this tiny little thing seemed to have generated whopping magnetic fields lasting for an extremely long time — longer than you might think would be possible.»

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.

This could have implications for how the mass extinction currently gathering steam could unfold and how badly it will affect Earth ecosystems, the authors said.

Knowing this value of g for Earth's surface, along with the constant G and the 6,731 - kilometer distance to Earth's center, you can then calculate Earth's mass to be 6 x 1024 kilograms.

«With the Earth in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, it is astonishing how little we know about our planet's biodiversity, even for charismatic groups such as tarantulas.»

Bones deteriorate quickly in space, losing about 1 to 2 per cent of their mass for every month away from Earth.

«This planet might have the same mass as Earth, but it is certainly not Earth - like,» says David Kipping of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), lead author of the discovery.

The previous record holder for a planet with a measured mass (Kepler - 78b) weighed 70 percent more than Earth.

Gliese 876D, for instance, has an orbit tighter than Mercury's and a solid mass several times that of Earth, and it may rotate so slowly that sunrise, imagined here, unleashes a fiery hell.

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).

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.»

That's good news, because scientists here reported yesterday that planets more than 1.6 times the mass of Earth are unlikely to be dense rocky worlds like ours — assumed to be the only plausible habitats for life.

For more than 30 years, scientists have argued about a controversial hypothesis relating to periodic mass extinctions and impact craters — caused by comet and asteroid showers — on Earth.

The masses for planet c and planet d are estimated to be about two and a half and four times that of Earth respectively, although the uncertainty in these two determinations is very high.

A favored size for Planet X emerged — between five and 15 Earth masses — as well as a preferred orbit: antialigned in space from the six small objects, so that its perihelion is in the same direction as the six objects» aphelion, or farthest point from the sun.

Diving deeper into the complex puzzle of mass strandings, the team decided to expand their analysis and include additional oceanographic and atmospheric data sets from NASA's Earth science missions, including Terra, the Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - view Sensor — or SeaWIFS, for short — and Global Precipitation Measurement, as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, mission.

For Alpha Centauri B there might be orbiting planets than are smaller than 8 Earth masses; for Proxima Centauri, there might be orbiting planets that are less than one - half of Earth's maFor Alpha Centauri B there might be orbiting planets than are smaller than 8 Earth masses; for Proxima Centauri, there might be orbiting planets that are less than one - half of Earth's mafor Proxima Centauri, there might be orbiting planets that are less than one - half of Earth's mass.

Zhao, the study's first author, determined that for Alpha Centauri A, there might still be orbiting planets that are smaller than 50 Earth masses.

Huge regions with epic volcanic explosions are now blamed for four of Earth's «big 5» mass extinctions

It's the mass migration of such holes that creates the large electrical currents responsible for generating the low - frequency magnetic pulses that make their way to detectors on Earth's surface, they say.