Sentences with phrase «diameter than the object»

An exception to this may have been if you used a lightweight and / or hollow object that did not sink at least halfway into the layer of flour — if this happened, a relatively smaller crater may have formed because the part of the object that hit the flour was smaller in diameter than the object's actual, widest diameter.

Not exact matches

Toddlers have an airway with a smaller diameter than adults, and even small objects can get stuck in such a small space.

Provisionally designated A / 2017 U1, the object appears to be less than a half - kilometer in diameter and is traveling at just over 40 kilometers per second — faster than humanity's speediest outbound space probes.

Since that discovery hundreds of large objects, most more than 100 kilometers in diameter, have been spotted in the Kuiper Belt, including some of the roughly Pluto - size bodies that spurred a redefinition of the word «planet» and relegated Pluto to dwarf status.

Even though Pluto is larger than the other objects — its diameter is 2320 kilometres — Tombaugh would not have found it, say Jewitt and Luu, if it had been as dark as they are.

The pachyderms deploy their trunks to pick up objects of all shapes and sizes, from small seeds to logs more than a meter in diameter.

The scientists found no new objects, ruling out the existence of any vulcanoids larger than about 6 kilometers, which is less than half the mean diameter of the little martian moon Deimos.

An asteroid, after all, is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, and the statistical threat of another strike motivates NASA's Near Earth Object Program, which aims to locate most of the bodies more than 1 kilometer in diameter that swing close to Earth.

It has a mass of 1.5 the mass of the Sun concentrated in about 10 kilometers diameter object, rotates 30 times per second, and is surrounded by a region of intense magnetic field ten thousand billion times stronger than that of the Sun.

So far, surveys have discovered several thousand near - Earth objects, but astronomers estimate that as many as a million have diameters greater than 50 metres, big enough to be dangerous in a collision with Earth (see UN urged to coordinate killer asteroid defences).

An important principle in science is that an object can not change its brightness faster than it takes light to cross its diameter.

On January 10, 2005, astronomers using the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope announced that the dust disk is bigger than previously estimated and was probably created by collisions of protoplanetary objects as big as the planet Pluto, up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,200 miles) in diameter (press release — more below).

Today there are more than a thousand known Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) and astronomers estimate that there may be more than 70,000 KBOs with diameters greater than 100 kilometres.

Once more massive and brighter than Gacrux and so burnt out much faster, it is now probably a few hundred times fainter than Sol, with 0.6 to 1.4 times its mass and less than one percent of its diameter — a very dense object at planetary size.

But if you wait for the sunset, the sun looks red because the blue and ultraviolet light is scattered away by tiny particles.The new study suggests the objects causing the long - period dimming of Tabby's Star can be no more than a few micrometers in diameter (about one ten - thousandth of an inch).

Only about 10 meters in diameter, the object exhibited an anomalous rate of rotation, fluctuations in brightness and speed for its size, suggesting to Scotti that it was something other than your «run - of - the - mill» main belt asteroid.

Potential super-Earths — all with estimated diameters (or radii) between 1.5 and 2.2 that of Earth's but with close - orbiting periods of less than 41 days — that were found and released by the Kepler Mission as part of its 306 stars with planetary candidates are listed in the table below by designation number as a «Kepler Object of Interest» (KOI).

They include 19 larger than Jupiter and 165 Jupiter - class objects, 662 Neptune - class planets, 288 «super-Earths» (1.26 to 2.0 times Earth's diameter, and 68 Earth - sized planets (0.5 to 1.25 times Earth's diameter)(NASA / Kepler press release; Borucki et al, 2011; and Lissauer et al, 2011a).

Today there are more than a thousand known Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), and astronomers estimate that there may be more than 70,000 KBOs with diameters greater than 100 kilometers.

Indeed, if all asteroids down to the size of meter - or yard - sized boulders or less were combined together, the resulting object would measure less than 1,300 to 1,500 km (810 to 930 miles) across, which is less than one third to one half the diameter of the Earth's Moon.

The size of the object is more then 1.5 inches in diameter If the object is larger than 1.5 inches in diameter, it is unlikely that it would pass further in the small intestine.

Prohibited exchange items include but are not limited to: electronics, heavy items (over twenty pounds), small - scale objects (less than six inches in diameter), loose - leaf paper, tote bags, mass - produced garments, food or other perishables, weapons, and chemicals or other hazardous materials.

Ramps must not have any openings in the surface that allow the passage of an object with a diameter of more than 13 mm

and report as in need of repair any spacing between intermediate balusters, spindles or rails for steps, stairways and railings that permit the passage of an object greater than 4 inches in diameter;