Sentences with phrase «different planet sizes»

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In February, for example, a different one revealed the existence of seven rocky, Earth - size planets circling a red dwarf star.

The earthly 24 hour day is different say than a day on Mars due to different size of the planet etc.... The universe is not on the earth's 24 hour «day» so to speak.

Like, Khalil Mack was of a similar size and athleticism, but his pass rushing technique and McKinley's are on totally different planets.

Some of them, such as Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, additionally possess planetary rings — a collection of still smaller bodies of different sizes that also orbit a planet.

Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls).

A different planet might have some mitigating factors — for example, active geological processes that replenish the atmosphere to a degree, a magnetic field to shield the atmosphere from stripping by the stellar wind, or a larger size that gives more gravity to hold on to the atmosphere.

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

That, according to Kane, poses a problem because our own solar system contains two planets of the same size — Earth and Venus — that have vastly different atmospheric and surface conditions.

Rotating independently of the planet, turning at a different speed within a fluid outer core, this solid, satellite - size sphere holds clues to understanding Earth's earliest history and perhaps even life on the planet.

With all seven planets Earth - sized, we can look at the different characterisitics that make each of them unique and determine critical connections between a planet's conditions and origins.»

According to Weaver, the size of our sun, the region of the galaxy in which it formed, even how long it took for the planets to form — all these characteristics are different in other star systems and may influence the chemical inventory available to any Earth - like planets orbiting there.

«You can see here the small planets dominate the picture,» he casually said while referring to a graph depicting the different exoplanet sizes and their number as of July 2010.

The number of planets discovered at 500 nm (black curve) that could also be detected at longer wavelengths (colored curves), as desired for spectroscopic observations, as a function of telescope aperture size and for two different assumed inner working angles.

«There are several factors, like star variability and tidal effects, that make these planets different from Earth - sized planets around Sun - like stars.»

Depending on star type, a planet with Earth's atmosphere in a habitable zone orbit would have a different colored sky and apparent size of their «Sun» (more).

(The ESA spacecraft arrived at Sol's hottest planet on March 11, 2006, where it is being used to investigate how Venus — although similar to Earth in size, mass, and composition — evolved over the past 4.6 billion years to have atmospheric and planetary surface characteristics that now appear very different from those on Earth.)

For this study, the scientists had one driving question, said UC Berkeley astronomer and lead author Erik Petigura: Among all these different types of planets, how common were the ones that were sized like Earth?

However, on September 8, 2008, a different team of astronomers (Thierry Forveille, Xavier Bonfils, Xavier Delfosse, Michael Gillon, Stephane Udry, François Bouchy, Christophe Lovis, Michel Mayor, Francesco Pepe, Christian Perrier, Didier Queloz, Nuno Santos, Jean - Loup Bertaux) submitted a paper (based on data from the ESO 3.6 - meter telescope and its HARPS spectrograph) which claims to rule out the mass of a Neptune - sized inner planet but found evidence for a less massive «Super-Earth» companion in an tighter inner orbit (Forveille et al 2008).

Studies conducted by our group have also shown that exoplanets orbiting really close to their host star have very dynamic atmospheres, meaning that they change continuously, producing clouds of different sizes, even whole cloud systems, all over the planet's surface.

However, on September 8, 2008, a different team of astronomers submitted a paper (based on data from the ESO 3.6 - meter telescope and its HARPS spectrograph) which claims to rule out the mass of a Neptune - sized inner planet but found evidence for a less massive «Super-Earth» companion in an tighter inner orbit (Forveille et al 2008).

Over 300 varieties (all sizes) of Aloe Vera plants exist on our planet with different ones on each continent.

Pet brands sell soccer - style balls (resistant to sharp teeth) in different sizes, like the 5 - inch Orbee - Tuff ball from Planet Dog ($ 20; amazon.com).

Katamari Damacy, originally released for the Playstation 2 in 2004, is a wacky Japanese game that requires players to roll an enormous adhesive ball to collect all sorts of objects from different sizes (chickens, cars, buildings, planets, you name it).

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Assuming there is any way for human lawyers to compete with an artificial brain the size of a planet (much less one on every desktop), legal work will likely be different.

You'll also have the benefit of knowing that everything costs less than it would, you're not contributing to the damage to the planet that a city the size of NYC creates, and you're doing something different.