Sentences with phrase «system object at»

A faint, slowly moving dot discovered by computer shows clear signs of being a deep Solar System object at least as large as Pluto.

Not exact matches

In amongst the swirling mass of stars at its heart lie many intriguing systems, including X-ray sources, variable stars, vampire stars, unexpectedly bright «normal» stars known as blue stragglers, and tiny objects known as millisecond pulsars, small dead stars that rotate astonishingly quickly.

At its closest approach to Jupiter during each flyby, the robot briefly becomes the fastest human - made object in the solar system, reaching speeds of about 130,000 mph.

Twelve updated ultrasonic sensors complement this vision, allowing for detection of both hard and soft objects at nearly twice the distance of the prior system.

Musk replied by pointing out that the detection system «tunes out» objects that it labels as road signs, underlining that this helps the car running at optimal speed and away from «false braking events.»

The conclusion I want to pull out of these considerations is this: if there is at least one actual entity in the world characterized by at least one eternal object, one specific form of definiteness, then this actual entity provides all the ontological ground required for the realm of eternal objects — an appeal to God is not necessary.11 And, indeed, in Whitehead, as in Aristotle, there is an eternity and an abeternity of becoming so that within the terms of the system it is inconceivable that there be any region of the extensive continuum, no matter how far it be extended fore or aft, where there is not a generation of actual entities exhibiting concrete forms of definiteness.

Specific notions of deity, and of divine action, that have figured in theistic conceptual systems of long - past civilizations have certainly been influenced by then - prevailing technology — the ways in which people made their living.5 In our own time, recent developments in technology and in science have had major influence on how the object of religion is conceived, at least for some theists.6 Whitehead wrote:

Obviously you don't realize that an asteriod the size of just the Empire State Building that actually makes it to the surface of the earth at the average speed of most objects coming from the asteroid belt in our solar system would cause enough destruction and devastation on earth to wipe out most if not all of the planet.

The attempt is to explain the way in which God is related to actual occasions, eternal objects, and creativity, in such a way that at no point do we attribute to him a mode of being or relation inexplicable in terms of the principles operative elsewhere in the system.

Now, given any system of material objects that might be considered as a frame of reference in a theory of dynamics, that system is either at rest, or in motion with uniform velocity, or in accelerated motion relative to absolute space.

He could not be trusted with absinthe in his system and sharp objects at hand.

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

A transitional object like a soft small blanket, especially one that has mom's smell on it will help them to regulate their nervous system, will help them to fall asleep at night, and will help them to separate from you when you can't be there.

«It's been in a deep freeze at 400 degrees below zero all that time, so it's a perfectly preserved relic from the birth of our home solar system,» Stern says of the 4 billion - year - old object.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

At the ends of the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, there is a belt of objects composed of ice and rocks, among which four dwarf planets stand out: Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea.

A system that can compare physical objects while potentially protecting sensitive information about the objects themselves has been demonstrated experimentally at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

Several large impact scars on the moon appear to be around 3.9 billion years old, suggesting that the Earth and other objects of the inner solar system were heavily pounded at that time.

This painting works because the objects are life - size and depicted in hyper - realistic detail, and also because Remps laid a set of decoys that hoodwink our visual system into perceiving depth, says Priscilla Heard, a neuropsychologist at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK.

The first algorithm they tried was developed for tracking systems such as radar, which must also determine whether objects imaged at different times are in fact the same.

This system shows all three: a polluted white dwarf, a surrounding debris disk, and at least one compact, rocky object.

«We should make sure we are looking at the right objects,» he says, adding that the search for life within our solar system should remain a priority.

This high - resolution image of Jupiter's moon Io was snapped last November 6 by the Galileo spacecraft, and it has given astronomers their best look at the most volcanically active object in the solar system since the Voyager flyby in 1979.

What's most surprising is that we've never seen interstellar objects pass through before,» said Karen Meech, an astronomer at UH's Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu specializing in small bodies and their connection to solar system formation.

The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.

However, even travelling at a breakneck speed of about 95,000 kilometres / hour, it took so long for the interstellar object to make the journey to our Solar System that Vega was not near that position when the asteroid was there about 300,000 years ago.

The Milky Way galaxy, home of Earth and the solar system, appears to harbor at least one such object within its nucleus.

«With our robust and efficient system we can reliably and accurately determine the objects» exact position and direction of movement in orbit,» explains Dr. Thomas Schreiber from the fiber lasers group at Fraunhofer IOF.

Guyon adds that the system will help astronomers to study the skies more efficiently, by bringing large objects, such as nearby galaxies, into focus all at once, and by allowing more distant objects to be studied in a single snapshot.

If an object is actually at one of the positions examined, part of the radiation is reflected back to a special scanner, which is directly integrated into the system.

«If we're right, oceans in the outer solar system are common, and other objects of similar size to Pluto there probably also have subsurface oceans,» says Francis Nimmo, a lead author of one of the studies and planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

So even though the stick does not look like a beak — maybe not even to the chick — this strange object is more effective than a real beak at activating the bird's beak - detection system.

This scenario is one of many that researchers at Stanford University are imagining for a system that can produce images of objects hidden from view.

Tested against state - of - the - art systems, CSAIL's system was better at grasping objects 95 percent of the time and 57 percent faster at doing tasks.

The only objects that fit that bill are comets at the edge of the solar system, in the so - called Oort cloud, and galaxies far out in the universe.

To calibrate its systems, ALMA looks at objects emitting strong radio waves (radio «bright» objects).

«I try to imagine how it would be to stand on the surface of this icy object — small enough that a fast sports car could reach escape velocity and drive off into space — and stare up at a 20 - kilometre wide ring system 1000 times closer than the Moon.»

Although the consequences are roughly comparable in either case, an important difference is that objects in the solar system that circle far away from the sun on long - period orbits before returning, such as comets, would hit the earth at much greater velocities than close - orbiting (short - period) bodies, such as asteroids.

But as Price points out, there are very few spacecraft monitoring the planets at present, and any exceptional phenomena are quite likely to be discovered by amateur observers rather than professionals, who are justifiably far more concerned with objects far beyond the Solar System.

The models simulated the impact of an object large enough to create a basin of Sputnik Planum's size hitting Pluto at a speed expected for that part in the solar system.

But a low - mass star can not have the size exceeding the size of a more massive companion in that double system, and would it be smaller, the eclipse would not take place at all, as you can not hide a larger object behind a smaller one.»

In fog so dense that human vision could penetrate only 36 centimeters, the system was able to resolve images of objects and gauge their depth at a range of 57 centimeters.

If the quality factor of the resonator is high, the mechanical energy will dissipate at a very low rate, and therefore the resonator will be extremely accurate at measuring or sensing objects thus enabling these systems to become very sensitive mass and force sensors, as well as exciting quantum systems.

In the Lyme disease system, the researchers got around this confounding factor by looking at diversity in the unexpressed cassettes, which would not have been the object of direct selection because they have no known function on their own; they simply exist as a way of increasing the potential diversity of the VlsE protein.

At least one previous attempt to create an identity system for the internet, Microsoft's Passport initiative of the early 2000s, failed in part because privacy advocates objected to one organisation controlling the process.

The system's unique geometry will allow the scientists to examine general relativity's strong equivalence principle, which states that gravity accelerates all objects at the same rate, regardless of their density.

At the time, Remo wasn't thinking about near - Earth objects, bodies in the solar system whose orbits may one day intersect with Earth's.

But the newly discovered worlds add an extra twist: all orbit in the opposite direction from all of the other objects in their solar system (a so - called retrograde orbit), and all orbit at severe angles.

But the 1992 discovery of Kuiper Belt Objects, a collection of nearly planet - sized ice chunks orbiting at the fringes of the solar system, suggested to many astronomers that the inventory was incomplete.

Sedna's odd, far - flung orbit made it the most distant known object in the solar system at the time.