Sentences with phrase «by high eccentricity»
«By comparing the actual New Horizons observations of Charon to the various predictions, we can see what fits best and discover if Charon could have had a subsurface ocean in its past, driven by high eccentricity.»
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In astronomical jargon, the process by which long, oval orbits change into close orbits is called «high - eccentricity migration».
In the 1970s and 1980s, some astronomers suggested that observed flare activity or light minima in EV Lac's light curve between flares could have been caused by an eclipsing companion with an orbital period of around 45 years and a high orbital eccentricity (e ~ 0.5)(G. Sh.
Raymo and Paillard have a good story about the 100KYr cycle arising from the modulation of the precessional cycle by the changes in the Earth's orbital eccentricity, coupled with some glacial dynamical effects which «rectify» the high frequency precessional signal.
A link between Earth's orbital eccentricity and NADW production with high eccentricity leading to low production of NADW and vice versa is proposed by Crowley and Kim (1992).
Regardless of the carbon source (s), it has been shown that the hyperthermals were astronomically paced, spurred by coincident maxima in the Earth's orbit eccentricity and spin axis tilt [17], which increased high - latitude insolation and warming.