Sentences with phrase «celestial body which»

Space Comet is celestial body which orbits in elliptical or parabolic around the Sun.

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What led to conflict was that the church had embraced Aristotelian science, which speculated that there was a profound difference between earthly bodies and celestial ones.

The Adler Planetarium will ask the Chicago Park District Board on Wednesday to approve a $ 2 increase in admission fees, which would double what senior citizens and students pay to view celestial bodies.

The Outer Space Treaty, which the United States signed in 1967, requires that the exploration of the moon and other «celestial bodies» be conducted «so as to avoid their harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter.»

They use a planet's gravitational field as a slingshot, which allows them to visit other celestial bodies without using up too much fuel.

Adrian Hamers is researching the way in which celestial bodies orbit each other, now and in the future.

When it's time to move on to another celestial target, the spacecraft would use the harvested energy to quickly retrieve the tether, which accelerates the spacecraft away from the body.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and their surface features, recently approved a dozen names proposed by NASA's New Horizons team, which led the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moons in 2015 with the New Horizons spacecraft.

The observed metabolic activity of M. sedula coupled to the release of free soluble metals can certainly pave the way to extraterrestrial biomining, a technique which extracts metals from ores, launching the biologically assisted exploitation of raw materials from asteroids, meteors and other celestial bodies.

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.

The nodes are the two points at which the orbit of an ETNO, or any other celestial body, crosses the plane of the Solar System.

Over time, Mars» gravitational pull would have pulled that moon toward the planet until it reached the Roche limit, the distance within which the planet's tidal forces will break apart a celestial body that is held together only by gravity.

Unlike the IAU, which prohibits naming celestial bodies after pets, living people, copyrighted material or ideologically charged individuals, Uwingu has looser restrictions.

Until now, the only extra-terrestrial celestial body from which we have gathered samples is the Moon.

When a celestial object is in an elliptical orbit around another body, an apsis (plural apsides) is a point on the orbit at greatest or least distance from the center of attraction, which is generally the center of mass of the system.

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.

Aberration of Light, a phenomenon in which a star or other celestial body, as viewed from the earth, appears to be slightly displaced from its true position.

The Forum Expanded section will be host to a double bill from experimental film great Ken Jacobs, with a new film Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies, a 15 - minute vision of «Cyclopean 3D», screening alongside Orchard Street (1955) which will be presented for the first time in its originally planned half - hour cut.

The name Sizigi, which Chevy calls «a stylized version of syzygy,» means an almost straight - line configuration of celestial bodies.

My Starry Night Unlock the secrets of the stars and journey into celestial bodies to explore the mysteries of the universe in this new game which will allow you to venture into the stars from the comfort of your living room.

Their imagery and atmosphere evoke celestial bodies as seen from a distance, the light sources emanating directional lines or radial patterns which result in subtle gradients.

Alternately, the piece can be read more abstractly as a map of flat, tangential relationships or symbolically, bringing to mind both the historical astronomers Tycho Brahe's and Johannes Kepler's diagrams, which attempted to prove Copernican astronomy, and Nancy Holt's Dark Star Park (1984), an earth work that simultaneously illuminates and mystifies the human relationship to celestial bodies.

Inspired by a residency in the Atacama desert in Chile, the silverpoint drawings of Celestial Sphere are the result of a meditation on the way in which celestial bodies Celestial Sphere are the result of a meditation on the way in which celestial bodies celestial bodies interact.

The humanity is forgotten that we are talking about a planet, a celestial body, which is part of an astronomic system, which is embedded into another system greater, and from which systems are coming forces that induces and oversets the physical and behavior state of its parts.

(6) Any vehicle used or designed for flight or navigation in space and on the registry of the United States pursuant to the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies and the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space, while that vehicle is in flight, which is from the moment when all external doors are closed on Earth following embarkation until the moment when one such door is opened on Earth for disembarkation or in the case of a forced landing, until the competent authorities take over the responsibility for the vehicle and for persons and property aboard.