Sentences with phrase «complete orbit around the sun»

What matters is that every 365.25 days we make a complete orbit around the sun.

Asteroid 2015 BZ509, also known as Bee - Zed, takes 12 years to make one complete orbit around the Sun.

Mercury completes each orbit around the Sun every 88 days, and passes between the Earth and Sun every 116 days.

Fact two: Mercury completes its orbit around the sun in only 88 Earth days.

It completes an orbit around the Sun in about 12 Earth years.

It takes Venus 117 Earth days to rotate once, and 224.7 Earth days to complete an orbit around the sun, meaning there are less than two full days in a single Venusian year.

Since a 2005 visit by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, the short - period comet has completed more than one complete orbit around the Sun and approached the inner Solar System as close as the orbital distance of Mars.

In addition to taking 1,100 years to complete its orbit around the sun, the object is blisteringly chilly, which makes sense seeing as it's located in the Kuiper Belt where our sun is no more than a bright pinprick in the sky.

It is flattened at the poles due to a very fast rotation of less than 11 hours per Saturn «day,» but the planet takes 29.5 Earth years to complete an orbit around the Sun.

Not exact matches

According to the researchers» calculations, such a hypothetical planet would complete one orbit around the Sun roughly every 17,000 years and, at its farthest point from our central star, it would swing out more than 660 astronomical units, with one AU being the average distance between Earth and the Sun.

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

«The Bee - Zed asteroid orbits in the opposite direction to planets: The asteroid makes a complete circuit around the Sun every 12 years, corresponding with the orbital period of Jupiter, which shares its orbit but travels in the opposite direction.»

It takes 29.5 years to complete one orbit around the sun and one circle through Earth's sky, by far the slowest motion of any naked - eye planet.

Since then, the ringed planet has completed a quarter of an orbit around the sun and Titan has passed through its spring equinox.

Every 38 hours GJ 1214 b completes an orbit around GJ 1214, a dim, lightweight red star known as an M dwarf that lies just 42 light - years from the sun.

The Earth spinning around on its axis once gives us the length of a day, and a complete orbit of the Earth around the Sun gives us a year.

On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission flew at a close distance of around 435 miles (or 700 kilometers) by Comet Hartley 2, which was then an active short - period comet with jets of gas and dust coming off its sun - lit end and which completes an orbit in less than 6.5 years.