Sentences with phrase «distance than the moon»

Further calculations showed that the object, named 1996 JA1, would pass by at less of a distance than the moon is from Earth, spawning the first widespread media coverage of an asteroid threat.

Not exact matches

They developed a technique known as «best - matching,» in which the motion of an object (for instance, the moon) is tracked solely by its changing distance from other objects (like the sun and the Earth), rather than its changing location against a grid.

Comet C / 2013 A1, also known as comet Siding Spring, will pass within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet — less than half the distance between Earth and our moon and less than one - tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of Earth.

They appear to be at very similar distances from us — around 7 billion light years — in a circle 36 ° across on the sky, or more than 70 times the diameter of the Full Moon.

That is less than half the distance between Earth and our moon and less than one - tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of Earth.

(In comparison, the average distance between Earth and moon is a little more than 384,000 km.)

Scientists estimate that several dozen asteroids in the 20 - to -40-foot (6 - to -12-meter) size range fly by Earth at a distance even closer than the moon every year.

Phobos circles just 3,721 miles above the Martian surface (Earth's moon averages a distance of 239,000 miles) and completes an orbit in 7 hours and 39 minutes, making a Phobos «month» on Mars less than one - third of a Martian day.

They eliminated those with orbital radii less than one tenth that of Earth's, because at that distance moon systems might not remain in stable orbits around their planets on billion - year timescales.

The planet's orbit measures about 600,000 kilometers across, only 50 % more than the average distance from Earth to the moon.

According to Radebaugh, the process probably proceeds much more slowly on Titan than on Earth because, at 10 times Earth's distance from the sun, there is less energy to power erosive processes in the moon's atmosphere.

That's more than half the distance to the moon.

The team also found that Saturn moon Rhea is moving away 10 times faster than the other moons, which is the first evidence that a planet's dissipation factor can vary with its distance in relation to the moon.

Viewed from a planet at Earth's orbital distance around Alpha Centauri A, stellar companion B would provide more light than the full Moon does on Earth as its brightest night sky object, but the additional light at a distance greater than Saturn's orbital distance in the Solar System would not be significant for the growth of Earth - type life.

Its tail already stretches out more than three - quarters of the distance from the Earth to the Moon and is being keenly watched by astronomers.

«A newfound asteroid will safely pass Earth on June 8 from a distance of about 777,000 miles (1.25 million kilometers), more than three times farther away than our moon.»

This graphic depicts the passage of asteroid 2004 BL86, which will come no closer than about three times the distance from Earth to the Moon on Jan. 26, 2015.

Astronomers were watching when comet P / 2016 BA14 flew close by Earth on 22 March at a distance of slightly more than nine times the distance of the Moon.

Only discovered sixteen days ago, the 400 - metre - wide asteroid will fly past Earth at a safe distance slightly farther than the Moon's orbit on 31 October at 5:05 pm GMT.

Indeed, Stars B and C are separated by only some 0.008 AU, around three quarters of a million miles (more than one million km) or about three times the distance between the Earth and its Moon.

The distance between the Moon and Earth is 400 times less than the distance between the Sun and Earth.

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It will pass not only far inside the orbit of the Moon, but even closer than the 22,300 - mile distance where geosynchronous satellites orbit.

Asteroid 2005 YU55, photographed on Nov. 7, is passing Earth this evening at slightly less than the distance of the Moon's orbit.

Multiple people have pointed out to him that the mere fact that Venus is warmer than Mercury despite being farther from the sun, and that Earth is warmer than the moon, despite being the same distance from the sun, show conclusively that atmospheres do in fact result in warmer surface temperatures via the greenhouse effect.

Yet the Earth and the moon are virtually the same distance from the sun, so why do we experience much less heat and cold than the moon?

A dollar bill has an average thickness of 0.11 mm So a stack of 4 trillion dollar bills would reach 440,000 km, or more than the distance to the moon.