Sentences with phrase «around an axis point»

Not exact matches

«At some point they reached a threshold level of communication that allowed Acheulean hand axes to start being taught and spread around successfully and that almost certainly involved some sort of teaching and proto - type language,» Morgan said.

Because Earth's axis of rotation points very close to Polaris, all other stars in the Northern Hemisphere appear to revolve around it.

Unlike typical telescopes, Gaia does not just point and stare: it constantly spins around its axis, sweeping the entire sky in less than a month.

These phases were characterized respectively by flow patterns which were random, aligned along an axis, and those which swirled around individual focal points.

By moving in a large enough circle around an axis, at something approaching the speed of light, an observer might catch his own temporal tail, returning to his starting point at some time earlier than his departure.

Yes, there are nitwits out in all directions around the political axis, but there's no point arguing with them as though they had a serious philosophy.

This theory stipulates that changes in Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun (eccentricity), changes in the direction in which our axis points (precession) and changes in the tilt of the earth itself (obliquity)-- known as Milankovitch Cycles — should contribute to changes in climate because of the different amounts of solar insolation received during these changes.

What we see in GASTA is at best a projection onto a single axis of a complex motion around and between locally stable points.

I used 360 points on the X axis because this broadly corresponds to the number of months of satellite global mean temp data available (around 30 yrs times 12 mths), but this can be changed also.