Sentences with phrase «causes celestial bodies»

Eventually, this causes celestial bodies to lose orbital energy, and they will have shorter orbital periods of only a few days.»

Not exact matches

The dominant model is based on the slow cooling of celestial bodies, which causes convection, which in turn creates large vortices of molten iron parallel to the axis of rotation of the celestial body.

What Rhoden's team observed in their study was that during this process, several models predict that Charon's orbit around Pluto could have been highly eccentric, which would have caused severe tides on both celestial bodies, possibly leading to the formation of underground oceans of liquid water, similar to those that probably exist inside Europa.

Now if some such celestial body or bodies exerted a pull on the highly asymmetrical solid Earth «potato» that would cause a small change in angular momentum and hence a change in LOD.