Sentences with phrase «earth less than a tenth»

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And yet Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt — is less than one - tenth of a percent the size of Earth and less than 2 % the size of the moon:

Less than a tenth of the schools supported a young - earth stance.

Young - earth creationism dominated at less than a tenth of the Protestant outposts and a fifth of the nondenominational schools.

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.

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.

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.