Sentences with phrase «decreasing planet size»
This rapid increase in planet occurrence with decreasing planet size agrees with core - accretion, but disagrees with population synthesis models.
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According to figures from the World Bank, the Chinese economy's carbon intensity — the amount of CO2 emissions relative to the size of economic output — has decreased by almost 70 per cent over the past three decades (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide intensity «-RRB-, and a further 20 per cent reduction from current levels is promised by 2020.
As the size of the planets we looked for decreased, the number that we found increased: We found more planets with 3 times the mass of the Earth than planets with 10 times Earth's mass, more planets 10 times as massive than 100 times, and so on.
As the size of the planet increases, the atmosphere's «metallicity» decreases.
The occurrence rate of Earth - size (0.5 - 1.4 Earth radius) planets is constant across the temperature range of our sample at 0.51 (+0.06 / -0.05) Earth - size planets per star, but the occurrence of 1.4 - 4 Earth radius planets decreases significantly at cooler temperatures.
Kepler measures the size of planets and their distance from stars using a technique known as transit photometry, in which the telescope watches for small decreases in the light visible from specific stars, indicating that a planet has passed in front.