Sentences with phrase «axis of rotation points»

It is also the summer solstice, or the point in the earth's orbit where the earth's axis of rotation points most toward the sun — in case you were wondering.

Thanks to the proximity and the fact that its axis of rotation points roughly in the Earth's direction, giving us a face - on - view of the developing planetary system, TW Hydrae is one of the most favorable targets for investigating planet formation.

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

Not exact matches

The conservation of angular momentum applied to the flotsam that became earth caused the poles (the 2 points where the earth intersects the axis of rotation.

In the simplest models of reversals, the Earth's magnetic field behaves like a bar magnet that points roughly along the planet's axis of rotation.

The terrestrial North Pole is a fixed geographic point that's diametrically opposed to the terrestrial South Pole on our planet's axis of rotation; it's the top of the spinning top that's Earth.

But orbital precession occurs only when two black holes have axes of rotation that point in random directions, and it disappears when the axes are both perpendicular to the orbital plane.

There you are unlucky to remark in the same way: «the tiny angle alpha between the axis of rotation and the vertical line, and the distance between the mass mean point and the rotation axis, in combination with the variable friction in the bottom bearing...»...