Sentences with phrase «between orbiting»

While the differences between orbiting telescopes are a bit complicated, we should be clear that space telescopes in general are going to provide us with a sharper picture than terrestrial ones.

One reason: The number of pieces has been steadily rising, driven in part by collisions between orbiting pieces of trash or trash and spacecraft.

The history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation in the creation of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.

A city - sized chunk of primordial space rock circled the solar system somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Even when those errors were corrected, though, the discrepancy between the orbit of Uranus and Newtonian gravity persisted.

«These objects may hold ice and preserve a record of conditions at formation between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter,» he told New Scientist.

The vast bulk of asteroids — millions of individual objects ranging from 560 - mile - wide Ceres to pea - size pieces of space shrapnel — reside in a broad zone between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the legendary asteroid belt.

He says their most likely birthplace is the asteroid belt, which occupies a wide swathe of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1223474).

Ceres revolves around the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter every 4.6 years.

But until recently the rocky debris that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter remained unvisited.

Centaurs are distinct from the much more numerous main belt asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and may have come from the Kuiper Belt region.

The hollow disk actually resembles a ring, about as wide as the distance between the orbits of Mars and Uranus.

Pulses with a wavelength near 597 nanometres, which have precisely the energy needed to make an antiproton jump between orbits, were followed almost immediately by an annihilation signal.

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.

Dwarf planet Ceres is located in the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, as illustrated in this artist's conception.

This so - called Kuiper Belt of bodies may be so substantial that it completely dwarfs the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Like other teams positioned in a 1500 - kilometer - wide swath across South America, the astronomers had started out the night with one mission: They intended to measure the size of Chariklo, an icy body that circles the sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus.

The majority of asteroids occupy an orbit about 210 million miles from the sun, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Most asteroids, which are made of rock, confine themselves to a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

In 1991, for instance, the Galileo spacecraft revealed numerous craters on the asteroid Gaspra, a lump of rock between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter measuring all of 15 kilometres across.

The comet is on an elliptical 6.5 - year orbit that takes it from beyond Jupiter at its farthest point, to between the orbits of Mars and Earth at its closest to the sun.

Located between the orbits of Mercury and Earth, Venus has a very thick atmosphere that is covered by a layer of clouds that produces a «greenhouse effect» on the planet.

Comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko and Rosetta now lie 405 million kilometers from Earth, about half way between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, rushing towards the inner Solar System at [continue reading]

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).

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

Dwarf planet Ceres is seen in the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, as illustrated in this undated artist's conception released by NASA January 22, 2014.

Currently located between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune in the inner Solar System, 2006 SQ372 travels on an extremely elongated, 22,500 - year orbit around the Sun, that comes within 24 AUs of Sol before moving as far out as 1,600 AUs.

The scientists traced these particles» origin to Saturn's E-ring, which lies between the orbits of the moons Mimas and Titan and whose icy particles are known to come from Enceladus.

The main asteroid belt (not shown) lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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.

Currently, it is located midway between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.

The presence and variability of browridges in archaic Homo species and their absence in ourselves have led to debate concerning their morphogenesis and function, with two main hypotheses being put forward: that browridge morphology is the result of the spatial relationship between the orbits and the brain case; and that browridge morphology is significantly impacted by biting mechanics.

Like other objects in the Main Asteroid Belt, Ceres moves around the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

P4 moves between the orbits of Nix and Hydra and completes an orbit around Pluto roughly every 31 days.

We were the tether between Orbit and our earthly institution, communicating with the artists daily.

There is a vague numerological connection between the orbit of Jupiter (roughly 10 years) around the sun and the length of an average solar cycle.

Not exact matches

From a technical standpoint, there's little holding NASA and private industry back from an era in which humans move freely between Earth and orbit or orbit and points beyond, Greason said.

If this carefully coordinated space «ballet» works, however, Musk's old car will be running laps between the sun and Mars in what's called a hyperbolic orbit.

The market is typically divided between $ 2 million to $ 5 million light vehicles — built by Rocket Lab, Vector and Virgin Orbit — and $ 62 million to $ 400 million heavy vehicles — built by SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin.

Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sketched out a Jetsons - like future at a conference Tuesday, envisioning a commercial space - travel market with dozens of destinations orbiting the Earth and hypersonic aircraft shuttling travelers between continents in two hours or less.

I choose to live life to the fullest through joy of discovering His «art» like fractals, birth, consciousness, seasons, animals, the «mighty deep» thanks to a Creator rather than accidental and inconsequential life, while hanging in the perfect orbit between burning up and freezing, complete with the earth's own washing machine, the ocean, which cycles on accidental moon power.

If you don't understand that the total angular momentum of a gas cloud is an aggregate quantity, but in fact there are local variations which can give rise to counter-spinning moons, and that in any case gravitational interactions between objects can produce retro - grade orbits then how in heavens name can you pretend to understand something as complex as evolution.

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes.

Bertrand Russell - philosopher, logician and leading atheist - was clearly a brilliant man, and he's famous for his «celestial teapot» argument regarding the burden of proof: «Nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice.

How do you not prove there is a teapot in the orbit between Mars and Jupiter if that's what I tell you?

The orbit of a body is described by a curve, given algebraically by an equation determining a «coordination» between two orders, that of the position, x, and that of the time, t.

Its engines will shut off and then restart again, kicking off a six - hour coast that will eventually put the Tesla into an elliptical orbit between Earth and Mars.

The largest and most mysterious resident of the debris belt between Mars and Jupiter is an icy world called Ceres, and it's on the threshold of being explored up close for the first time by NASA's Dawn mission, which is scheduled to enter Ceres's orbit on March 6.

The spacecraft's final 22 orbits, dubbed the Grand Finale, sent Cassini into the potentially dangerous region between the gas giant and its rings, and its final orbit sent it directly into Saturn's atmosphere.

Shortly after 7:30 am Eastern time this morning, a seven - year space voyage at last reached its final destination: NASA's Dawn mission entered orbit around Ceres, a small, icy world orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.