Sentences with phrase «direction as the planet»

To begin with, they orbited close to the plane of the ecliptic in the same direction as the planets, but their orbits were deformed by the galaxy's tidal force and by interactions with nearby stars, gradually becoming more inclined and forming a more or less spherical reservoir,» Morais said.

Co-orbital bodies that orbit the Sun in the same direction as a planet can follow trajectories (blue curves with arrows) that, from the perspective of the planet, look like tadpoles, horseshoes or «quasi-satellites.»

Our simulations showed that resonance capture is more likely for objects with retrograde orbits than for those orbiting in the same direction as the planets,» Morais said.

However, Morbidelli needs two or more subsequent collisions to explain why the satellites orbit in the same direction as the planet's rotation.

So, too, moons formed at the same time as their respective planets orbit those planets in the same direction as the planet's spin.

For the most part, these planets have several small moons, all orbiting in the same direction as the planet spins.

If planets and moons evolved from swirling dust clouds as is commonly taught, each of the almost 200 known moons in the solar system should orbit its planet in the same direction as the planet spins, but more than 30 moons have backward orbits.e Furthermore, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have moons orbiting in both directions.

Not exact matches

The plan would impose a $ 5.54 E-ZPass toll in each direction on the Koch / Queensboro, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges, which, as a bizarre consequence of Big Apple politics, have always been free for drivers to cross, despite the fact that these spans connect some of the most traffic - choked places on the planet.

As the tilted planet rotates, its powerful field changes direction, inducing electrical currents in any conducting layer within the moons.

All the planets and most of the asteroids in the solar system orbit the Sun in the same direction because the solar system emerged from a revolving cloud of dust and gas, most of the constituent objects of which continue to revolve as they did before.

Using the Hubble telescope, Jeffrey Linsky and his team at the University of Colorado in Boulder calculated the tail's composition, direction and speed by studying changes in the ultraviolet spectra of the planet's host star as the planet passed in front of it (The Astrophysical Journal, DOI: 10.1088 / 0004 - 637X / 717 / 2/1291).

Planets tend to form in a disc that surrounds their star's equator, and orbit the star in the same direction as its spin.

You would expect planets to orbit in the same direction as the star spins: If the star rotates counterclockwise, the planets should orbit it counterclockwise in a plane aligned with the star's equator.

Thought to be as old as the planet itself, these bands are sculpted by high - speed winds whipping around the orb in opposite directions, and constitute the «face» Jupiter presents to the outside world.

Even if the Galactic Empire managed to fire up the Death Star laser without melting the space station itself, its eight beams couldn't have converged into a single weapon as they did in the film; instead, each one would have flown off in its own direction, missing the planet completely.

Current models suggest that planets should orbit in the same direction as their star's rotation (as is true for our solar system), in keeping with the view that the whole shebang formed from the same spinning disk of material.

As Mars» magnetosphere, which is normally draped neatly over the planet, started to react to the comet's approach, some regions began to realign to point in different directions.

Astronomers at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at comparable speed as the galaxy's disk, which contains our stars, planets, gas, and dust.

Burns says those trends can be explained by the shifting view of the rings as seen from our planet: Six years ago, when Chariklo was in a different part of its orbit, the rings would have been seen edgewise from Earth, an invisible sliver that reflected little or no light in our direction.

In June, our planet's orbit around the sun carries us in the same direction as the galactic rotation; in January, we move against the flow.

A favored size for Planet X emerged — between five and 15 Earth masses — as well as a preferred orbit: antialigned in space from the six small objects, so that its perihelion is in the same direction as the six objects» aphelion, or farthest point from the sun.

Even some «simple» motions, like the rotation of a sphere or orbit of a planet, are nonuniform, as they constantly change direction and are therefore accelerating.

Passing bodies that rotate in the same direction as their path around the planet are more easily broken up, and their fragments more efficiently sucked into orbit.

That is because the planet's gravity pulls harder on the closer side of the small object, tugging it around in the same direction as it is travelling.

This explains why the planets all orbit the sun in the same direction as the sun itself spins, and share the same plane.

As a result, they orbit the planet in the direction that it spins.

Contrary to the poetic nature of «righting past wrongs» that some attribute to the de-extinction of passenger pigeons, I view the de-extinction of the passenger pigeon as a project seeded in our present and future; it is a pivotal exercise in thought stressing the recognition that we are the drivers of change on this planet and that we have the cognitive ability to take responsibility for the direction of that change.

The disk and the resulting planets rotate in the same direction as the original cloud, with the rotation speed increasing closer to the center, much as a spinning figure skater spins faster when they draw their arms inward.

All the planets revolve around the sun in the same direction — counter-clockwise as seen from over the sun's north pole.

Seeing the color black in fact is a comforting affirmation that I'm searching in the right direction, for a planet must be so faint as to appear to not be there at all.

I wrote at the time that his music for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — while a very fine film score — wasn't one of his most engaging albums, with its dark tone and great length; and while he uses that score as a springboard (and reprises some of its material), Giacchino takes War off in different directions and in doing so solves the problems that led to its predecessor being better within the film than without it.

The sexual tension between a curly - haired, side - whiskered Doc and the former prom queen - turned aspiring hippie starlet - turned kept woman is palatable, and fuels the fiction, yet, as any respectable PI, Doc meets a lot of available ladies throughout, whether he beds them or not: Jena Malone (a classic California blonde with a sordid heroin past), Reese Witherspoon (a hard - as - nail but o so classy deputy D.A.), Maya Rudolph (too sexy to be «just a receptionist»), Hong Chau (an employee of the «Chick Planet» massage parlour, who warns him about the Golden Fang gang), newcomer Sasha Fenway (as Japonica Fenway, a poor little rich girl who can't find enough mischief to commit), Yvette Yates (as the hot Chicana maid who thrusts her butt in Doc's direction while serving drinks to her mistress), Joanne Newsom (as the elusive Sortilège) and the fabulous Jeannie Berlin as Doc's I - know - it - all formidable auntie.

It isn't often that the landscape of a motion picture becomes as integral as the acting, writing or direction, but in the newest Ridley Scott («Prometheus») outer space adventure, The Martian, the planet's crimson hues, frozen nights and horrifying sand / dust storms bring the story of an explorer stranded there with little help of survival to full life.

Playing defensively is possible, but attempting to defend every direction is incredibly hard, and you'll likely be minced by the enemy as they take over the planet and use the extra resources to simply overwhelm you with a flood of units.

While it's looking like Lost Planet 3 will be a solo campaign experience, I'm hoping we'll have some arcade - style co-op scenarios as part of the multiplayer options — having a buddy join you in the campaign was one of the best improvements LP2 made to the series, and it would be a shame to lose this altogether — while I understand it's more difficult to create a co-op campaign with the new direction, I'd love to explore E.D.N. III in its frozen glory with a friend.

Sometimes as the Hummerzine (that's a Hummer limo, in case you have never seen one) pulls up next to you at the light and you feel there is no way we're going to get things going in the right direction for this beautiful planet we call Earth, just think of the many millions of people working full time at it right NOW!

Glad to see word is getting out about the SF Climate Challenge... As one responder said, the effort we've initiated here in SF will not save the planet, but it's a step in the right direction.

With climate change now more and more an establishment concern, and attempts to avert it now increasingly institutionalized in the established order, some have pointed to the «death of environmentalism» as an oppositional movement in society.12 However, if some environmentalists have moved toward capitalist - based strategies in the vain hope of saving the planet by these means, others have moved in the opposite direction: toward a critique of capitalism as inherently ecologically destructive.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

A natural consequence of science is that over time, as evidence accumulates and points in a certain direction, is that the experts start agreeing on the most likely explanation (eg that smoking increases the risk of cancer; that GHG emissions will cause a positive energy imbalance of the planet which will warm up as a result).

But I'm sure if I was a state climatologist, aware that a fellow state climatologist had been summarily fired for questioning AGW, I might write a newspaper column singing a lunatic's praises too — and turn a blind eye to all the missing raw data, and the endless «adjustments» that always mysteriously go in an upward direction, and the thoroughly corrupt, scheming UN / IPCC, and the plain fact that the planet itself is falsifying the CO2 - CAGW hypothesis: as CO2 steadily rises, the global temperature has been flat to declining for most of the past decade: click

One suggestion he came up with was that the energy coming in from the sun in the form of visible and ultra-violet light (known back then as «luminous heat») was easily able to pass through Earth's atmosphere and heat up the planet's surface, but that the «non-luminous heat» (now known as infra - red radiation) then emitted by the Earth's surface could not make it back in the opposite direction quite so readily.

To say that the planet Earth absorbs the solar energy as if it would be incoming from all directions with the same intensity is not correct, and it is not correct either to think that the whole load of solar energy emitted in all possible directions, as a sphere, will be intercepted by the Earth.

Most notably, since the end of 2011, Ice Cream Sandwich started to look as a more mature OS, one whose direction was beginning to make sense, appear clearer, as Android itself was soaring, soon to be the most adopted mobile operating system on the planet.