Sentences with phrase «by tidal forces from»

Its highly elliptical orbit is fairly stable, as S2 would have to come 70 times closer to the hole (16 light - minutes) to be at risk of being destroyed by tidal forces from the hole's gravity.

This hot slush is created by tidal forces from the mammoth gravity of Jupiter, which slowly knead the moon as it moves in its orbit, generating enormous amounts of heat as rock crystals rub against each other.

Development of the new technique to detect planet warped by tidal forces from their local star was detailed in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Not exact matches

By absorbing the force of strong winds and tides, wetlands protect terrestrial areas adjoining them from storms, floods, and tidal damage.

The Moon is no exception; we can learn about the interior of our natural satellite from its deformation caused by the tidal force of Earth.

During the last several years, the degree of the lunar deformation caused by the tidal forces has been determined by several orbiters, for example, Kaguya from Japan, Chang «e-1 from China, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) from the USA.

This spot is believed to be the nucleus of the former spiral galaxy, which was ejected from the system during the collision and is now being shredded by tidal forces to produce the visible stellar stream.

Heat from the friction of rocks caused by tidal forces could be the «engine» for the hydrothermal activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Some stars in the spheroid are the remains of galactic cannibalism, having come from dwarf galaxies that fell into the spiral galaxy, were ripped apart by powerful tidal forces, and were incorporated into the larger galaxy's structure.

Over time, the rings spread out, and the icy bits that drifted farthest from Saturn eventually reached distances where their gravitational attraction for each other could overcome the planet's tidal forces that tended to rip them apart — a process that is still happening today, according to observations by the Cassini spacecraft now touring the Saturn system.

Searching the far side Because the moon's rotation has been affected by tidal forces between Earth and the moon, only one side of the moon is visible from Earth.

The group, led by physics professor emeritus Saul Rappaport, determined that in order for the planet to maintain its extremely tight orbit around its star, it would have to be incredibly dense, made almost entirely of iron — otherwise, the immense tidal forces from the nearby star would rip the planet to pieces.

On Titan, the largest features may be made by changes in the thickness of its ice shell due to tidal forces from Saturn.

While Saturn is mostly a gigantic shroud of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium, it contains a rocky core — about 18 times the size of Earth, which responds to tidal forces from all of Saturn's major moons by bulging.

But recent modeling by NASA researchers reveals the grooves to be more akin to stretch marks created from the tidal forces caused by the gravitational pull between Mars and Phobos.

However, in rare instances, two of these objects orbit each other so closely ---- orbiting every few minutes ---- so that the helium from the lighter of the two gets pulled off by tidal forces and accumulates on the more massive white dwarf.

In addition, tidal forces affecting the Oort Cloud come from the differential gravitational forces exerted by stars in the Milky Way's galactic disk and by the galactic core on the Sun and comets as a result of their relative location in the Solar System, which have been modelled with numerical simulations (Duncan et al, 1987).

If the Pluto - Charon system formed via an impact, then a combination of heat from the impact and heat from the tidal forces induced by Charon could be enough to sustain an ocean.

If you work it out (by all means, check my math), that means the tidal force from the Moon acting at the surface of the Earth's oceans is more than 1000 times greater than the tidal force from Jupiter acting at the surface of the Sun.