Sentences with phrase «anstronomical orbits of the earth»

While the Planet Labs staff ate pancakes that morning in February, two shoebox - size nine - pound pods made in the company's unconventional factory floated from the International Space Station toward a polar orbit of Earth.

«Blood Moons, Blue Moons, Harvest Moons» all terms that originated without a precise understanding of the anstronomical orbits of the earth and moon.

The analysis of the orbital evolution of the meteorite has showed, according to researchers, a «disturbing similarity» with the evolution of 2014 UR116 which, given its size and minimum distance of intersection with the orbit of the Earth, has been classified as a potentially dangerous asteroid.

As the orbit of Mercury around the Sun is tilted compared with the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, the planet normally appears to pass above or below our nearest star.

And the ill - fated and controversial space capsule Liberty Bell 7 was raised from its watery grave almost exactly 40 years after it sank in the Atlantic Ocean, having carried the first astronaut, Gus Grissom, in a historic first orbit of the earth.

To explain them, theorists have invoked a maneuver called the grand tack, in which Jupiter originally formed closer to the sun, drifted inward almost to the orbit of Earth, and then drifted out again to its current position.

They suggested that the magnetar formed through the interactions of two very massive stars orbiting one another in a binary system so compact that it would fit within the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.

The comet will reach its closest distance to the Sun on 13 August 2015 at about 185 million km, roughly between the orbits of Earth and Mars.

In parallel, NASA is developing an Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM)-- a first - ever mission to identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a safe orbit of Earth's moon for future exploration by astronauts in the 2020s.

«It's humbling to look at our image of W Hydrae and see its size compared to the orbit of the Earth.

But with each orbit of Earth, the annual meteor shower carves out a portion of Comet Swift - Tuttle's debris stream.

The Earth spinning around on its axis once gives us the length of a day, and a complete orbit of the Earth around the Sun gives us a year.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around close - orbiting Stars A and B may be centered as close as 1.06 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System — with an orbital period of over 384 days (1.05 years).

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Star C would be centered around 0.11 AU — well inside the orbit of Mercury in the Solar System — with an orbital period of 24.4 days.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 0.05 AU with an orbital period of about eight Earth days, caused it to be tidally locked with Star C.

Calculations by to Weigert and Holman (1997) indicated that the distance from the star where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 1.25 AUs (1.2 to 1.3 AUs)-- about midway between the orbits of the Earth and Mars in the Solar System — with an orbital period of 1.34 years using calculations based on Hart (1979).

If you include infrared radiation, the orbit of an Earth - like planet with surface water would be centered around 0.57 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 1.14 AU — somewhat outside the orbital distance of Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of about one and a quarter of an Earth year.

Comet 209P / LINEAR is a short term periodic comet that orbits roughly every five years between the orbits of Earth and Jupiter.

In any case, the orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Zeta2 would have to be centered at around one AU — the orbital distance Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of just over a year.

Around dimmer Zeta1, the orbit of an Earth - like planet would be closer in around 0.9 AU — between the orbital distances of Venus and Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of around 320 days.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around 79 Ceti may be centered around 1.41 AUs — within the inner reaches of the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System — with an orbital period of 611 days (or 1.67 years).

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Star A may be centered as close as 1.8 AU — between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System — with an orbital period of 2.2 years.

As it is currently envisioned, these private companies will handle the responsibility of sending crews to low - Earth - orbit as SLS and the Orion spacecraft focus on missions beyond the orbit of Earth.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 0.77 AU — somewhat farther than the orbital distance of Venus in the Solar System — with an orbital period under 273 days or more than two thirds of an Earth year.

Currently, the orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Arcturus may be centered around 11 AU — between the orbital distances of Saturn and Uranus in the Solar System.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Star A may be centered around 1.7 AU — between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System — with an orbital period around 2.1 years.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Star B may be centered as close as 0.09 AU — well within the orbit distance of Mercury — with an orbital period of just around 22 days.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this tight binary (Aab) would have to be centered around 1.3 AUs — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System — with an orbital period between one and two Earth years.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Star B would be centered around 0.56 AU — between the orbits of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System — with an orbital period around 171 days.

This video of what Earth would look like with Saturnine rings is pretty ho - hum, yeah, there's a shot from orbit of the Earth with Saturn's rings around it, and then BAM!

The orbit of an Earth - like planet around the tight binary system that star Ba forms with its brown dwarf companion in the liquid water zone would have to be centered around 1.1 AU — a little farther than Earth's orbital distance around Sol — with an orbital period exceeding one Earth year.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around HD 111232 may be centered around 0.82 AU — between the orbital distances of Venus and Earth — with an orbital period of around 290 days (or 0.8 years).

If you include infrared radiation, the orbit of an Earth - like planet with surface water would be centered beyond 0.4 AU — outside the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

Accounting for relatively infrared radiation, the orbit of an Earth - like planet with surface water would be between 0.70 and 0.93 AU around HD 156668 — between the orbital distances of Venus and Earth in the Solar System (NASA Star and Exoplanet Database).

The plasma in the interplanetary medium is also responsible for the strength of the Sun's magnetic field at the orbit of the Earth.

Currently, the orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Pollux may be centered around 5.7 AU — just outside the orbital distance of Jupiter in the Solar System.

It's when there's a pretty good orbit - there's pretty good orbits happening often enough - but 2033 is a real good orbit of the Earth and Mars.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Star B would be centered around 0.036 AU — well inside the orbit of Mercury in the Solar System — with an orbital period of 6.5 days.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 0.91 AU — between the orbital distances of Venus and Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of nearly 342 days, close to an Earth year.

NASA plans to enable smaller space firms to provide services to low - Earth orbit, while the space agency works to send astronauts to destinations past the orbit of Earth.

A supermoon is a regular part of the Moon's orbit of Earth, appearing larger and brighter in the sky.

However, understanding that POWERCYAN is factually from orbits of Earth, perhaps this sound is from the rings of Saturn or possibly transported across a worm hole.

But those lucky and wealthy enough live on Elysium, a satellite within the orbit of Earth.

The orbit of the Earth (blue line) and its near - intersection with Asteroid 2010 WC9 (in white) is seen in this diagram by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

His strength allows the Hulk to leap from one continent to another, and also allows him to jump into the lower orbit of the Earth.

These are the basic data input into the models that define the land / ocean mask, the height of the mountains, river routing and the orbit of the Earth.

And the Early Holocene ice minimum is related to the changes in the orbit of the Earth (principally because the perihelion was in N.H. summer, rather than in January).

Every so often a fortunate attitude and orbit of the Earth combine to drench the ice sheets in sunshine as at the end of the most recent ice age, about ten thousand years ago.

Questions: FIRST)-RRB- Does the moon's orbiting of the Earth cause tidal motion in the molten center of the earth that thereby generates heat?