Sentences with phrase «by orbital decay»
They are eventually eliminated by orbital decay and accretion by the Sun, collisions with the inner planets, or by being ejected from the solar system by near misses with the planets.
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On April 30, if all goes well, after running out of fuel to fight off orbital decay NASA's long - running MESSENGER spacecraft will end its mission to Mercury by crashing into the planet's surface at nearly 4 kilometers per second.
«Changes in the CO2 and CH4 content have played a significant part in the glacial - interglacial climate changes by amplifying, together with the growth and decay of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, the relatively weak orbital forcing»
The orbital decay effect was discovered by Wentz around 1997 which induced a spurious cooling effect on one of our microwave satellite products (lower troposphere) but not the others.
«John Christy, the originator and keeper of the satellite data, has demonstrated that, even after accounting for the orbital decay noted by Wentz and Schnabel, there remains no significant warming in the satellite record.»
RSS pointed out a significant error in UAH's temperature analysis caused by a failure to accurately correct for the effects of orbital decay on observations across multiple satellites.