Sentences with phrase «in stable orbit around»

In a small number of the simulations, it eventually wound up in a stable orbit around one of the stars.

In stable orbit around Ceres, Dawn will continue circling even after it runs out of fuel late next year (SN Online: 10/20/17).

Instead, it would have spent a long time in a stable orbit around a single star before encountering the dangerous influence of Alpha Centauri A and B.

For example, William Paley, already in 1802, in his treatise Natural Theology, pointed out that if the law of gravity had not been a so «called «inverse square law» then the earth and the other planets would not be able to remain in stable orbits around the sun.

They eliminated those with orbital radii less than one tenth that of Earth's, because at that distance moon systems might not remain in stable orbits around their planets on billion - year timescales.

Not exact matches

The Dawn spacecraft is in such a stable orbit around the world, one Dawn mission scientist told the BBC, that it could stay there for a century or more and become «a perpetual satellite.»

While Hamers thinks that the earth will then remain in a stable orbit, this is really only small consolation: around the same time, the sun will grow into a «red giant» and completely engulf the earth.

To test these new technologies, the agency is planning a mission to identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a stable orbit around the moon in the 2020s, which astronauts will visit.

He pointed out that there are many close - orbiting planets around middle - aged stars that are in stable orbits, but his team doesn't know how quickly this young planet is going to lose its mass and «whether it will lose too much to survive.»

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 0.036 AU from Star B — well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.5 AU from around Iota Persei — around the orbital distance of Mars in the Solar System.

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 1.18 AU from Star A — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

For an Earth - type planet around HD 189733 A to have liquid water at its surface, it would need a stable orbit centered around 0.5 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System (with an orbital period around 150 days assuming a stellar mass around 82 percent of Sol's.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.15 AU from around 15 Sge — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

Assuming that the spectroscopic companion B does not preclude a stable inner planetary orbit, the distance from Star A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.457 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.12 AU from around 37 Gem — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

However, if the existence of a relatively close, second companion (see Star Bc below) around Bab — with an orbital period of 2.2 to 2.9 years or less — is confirmed, then a planetary orbit in Star Ba's water zone may not be stable over the long run.

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 3.5 AU (within a predicted habitable zone ranging between 2.3 and 4.8 AUs) from Star A — between the orbital distances of the Main Asteroid Belt and Jupiter in the Solar System (NASA Stars and Exoplanet Database).

Indeed, stable orbits may extend as far as one third of the closest separation between any two stars in a binary system, but according to NASA's Kepler Mission team, numerical integration models have shown that there is a range of orbital radii between about 1/3 and 3.5 times the stellar separation for which stable orbits around two stars are not possible (Holman and Wiegert, 1999; Wiegert and Holman, 1997; and Donnison and Mikulskis, 1992).

Orbity.io is a tricky and very addictive massively multiplayer browser based rocket game in which players attempt to maintain stable orbits around the planet Earth for as long as possible or take off and explore space.