Sentences with phrase «tidal interactions between»

Tidal interactions between close - in, gas - giant exoplanets and their host star should cause the orbits of the planets to decay.

The study indicates the ages of stars in these tidal features are synchronized to each other, and that these systems were produced by recent tidal interactions between M81, M82 and NGC 3077.

The recession is believed to result from gravitational or tidal interaction between the Earth and Moon.

Not exact matches

Such interactions often form streamer - like tidal tails as seen in Arp 256, as well as bridges of gas, dust and stars between the galaxies.

«The only tricky part quantitatively is calculating the elastic interactions between the different slots and the varying water level within each slot as a response to the tidal stress,» Kite explained.

Interactions between these different wave systems, and between the waves and the tidal current were found to add or reduce the wave height at the coast by up to 2m.

These oceans were formed by tidal heating, that is, warming of the ice caused by friction between the surface ice and the core as a result of the gravitational interaction between the planet and the moon.

Synchronous rotation can occur as a result of tidal forces from gravitational interactions between two orbiting bodies (Earth's moon is an example of an object in synchronous rotation, so that we only ever see one side from the ground).

This alignment would be maintained even if the separation between the two is extended via tidal interactions.

The inner planets and the outer planets have their own separate periods of harmonic oscillation as a result of billions of years of gravitational, tidal and electromagnetic interactions that are in a resonate pattern, the inner planets have a beat frequency of about 6558 day period with the outer planets settled into a period of somewhere between 172 and 179 years.

The Tidal Modelling Project will investigate the interaction between tidal energy extraction systems located at different positions around the UK, and how energy extraction at one site might affect the energy available and nature of the tidal energy resources at other sTidal Modelling Project will investigate the interaction between tidal energy extraction systems located at different positions around the UK, and how energy extraction at one site might affect the energy available and nature of the tidal energy resources at other stidal energy extraction systems located at different positions around the UK, and how energy extraction at one site might affect the energy available and nature of the tidal energy resources at other stidal energy resources at other sites.

«But it does enhance our understanding of interactions between plate tectonics, Earth's climate system, its oceans, and even how the evolution of life is, at least to some extent, driven by this tidal process.»

There can also be interactions between tidal projects if they are located near each other.