Sentences with phrase «at the escape velocity»

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A team of astronomers at the Friedrich Alexander University led by Péter Németh has discovered a binary star moving nearly at the escape velocity of our galaxy.

Figure out the kinetic energy of a kilogram of CO2 at escape velocity (Ve = 11,200 m / s), and multiply by the number of kilograms of CO2 you want to remove.

Not exact matches

Cons: Arm thrower, doesn't use his body to generate velocity Narrow base, flat footed in the pocket without small springy movements Sloppy feet at the top of his drop that settles in to the narrow base Creativity is often big looping escapes that create more problems Inconsistent ball placement, usually a result of finessing arm throws

Well, why couldn't you do a complete story about John Glenn the man, weave in what some of the science is and talk about the historical significance all at once, and then have the young people try things, because they have a lot of energy and so that they can get a sense of what escape velocity is?

«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.»

They hunted for runaway stars — objects escaping the cluster at high velocities — that might have been kicked out of orbit by the supernova explosion that formed the magnetar.

Some meteor strikes in Mars's past were powerful enough to propel pieces of the planet's crust at speeds greater than escape velocity, some 3.1 miles per second.

As the satellite dips down into the atmosphere, STATIC identifies the cold ionosphere at closest approach and subsequently measures the heating of this charged gas to escape velocities as MAVEN rises in altitude.

The escape velocity is 10.4 km / s at Venus while it is only half of this value at Mars.

After that, it remained on the martian surface until about 16 million years ago, when a massive impactor — a comet or asteroid — slammed into Mars, spewing material into space at such tremendous velocity that some of it, including ALH84001, was able to escape Mars's gravity.

Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show today, the hotly - anticipated supercar doesn't just look like a spaceship brought to Earth, it promises to drive like something trying to achieve escape velocity.

At a water interface, some of the outward travelling molecules have enough velocity to overcome van der waal's forces or polar attraction and escape.

An atmosphere that is perfectly transparent to incoming and outgoing radiation can not radiate and all its heat content comes from conduction from the surface and is transported through the atmosphere solely by convection with no loss of energy to space except for the tiny fraction of atoms at the top of the atmosphere that exceed escape velocity.

Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal (known by the acronym RE < C), which was launched in 2007 via the Google.org Foundation, aimed to drive down the cost of renewable energy via R&D efforts until it was cheaper than coal, the magic point at which adoption would reach escape velocity.

At the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, David Ewing Duncan, a journalist and author of «When I'm 164,» asked a panel of health data leaders when data - driven personalized health might reach «escape velocity».