Sentences with phrase «around one's orbit»

As the two wave packets continued to travel around the orbit, they spread out and contracted in a rhythmic fashion governed by the laws of quantum mechanics.

All is routine around the orbit of Mars when suddenly, multiple distress signals erupt from the surface of Mars.

The Earth goes around its orbit, and the stuff with the debris that intersects Earth's orbit stays pretty much in the same spot.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) said that the definition for a planet is now officially known as «a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun (b) has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.»

Margot's test can be used to determine whether a body can clear a specific region around its orbit within a specific time frame, such as the lifetime of its host star.

Early in our solar system's history, there was a lot of dynamic instability, and Jupiter would have careened around its orbit, scattering any smaller bodies with its massive gravity.

As an analogy, in our own solar system one can imagine breaking each planet into pieces and spreading those pieces around the orbit the planet takes around the sun, such that the sun is encircled by a collection of massive rings that interact gravitationally.

Volunteering and Charity Work: The higher classes us philanthropy as sort of a status, and banquets, parties, mixers and concerts revolve around their orbit.

When the Gorg armada attacks you can move your satellites around their orbits to best defend against each wave, a convention defying mechanic that brings new vitality and interaction to the tower defense genre.

All those incredibly numerous and tiny muscles sculpting cheeks and lips, nuancing the skin around the orbits, telling our tales, often whether we like it or no.

Since the temperature of a baby star is higher than an adult star, the place where the temperature is equivalent to the Earth will be around the orbit of Mars in analogy to our solar system.

Measuring in at around half the size of Makemake, RR245 is much smaller than other known dwarf planets in the neighborhood, but still meets the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) criteria of that category: namely, it's in orbit around the Sun, it has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a nearly round shape, and, unlike regular planets, it hasn't cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and it isn't a satellite.

With Cassini's mission lasting 13 years, this meant that the spacecraft observed almost half of Saturn's seasonal change as the planet went around its orbit.

The IAU definition, however, states that a planet must also have «cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.»

Debbie Argue of Australian National University in Canberra adds that Obendorf's team has not accounted for hobbit cranial oddities such as a mounding of bone above and around the orbits.

This could only be explained by the scenario in which the newly formed massive planet cleared the gas as it travelled around their orbit, but trapped the dust particles further out [5].

The distance from either Groombridge 1830 where an Earth - type planet would be comfortable with liquid water is only about 0.44 AU (around the orbit of Mercury), but at that distance, such a planet would be very difficult to detect using present methods.