Sentences with phrase «earth years»

I'm sitting here wondering where on earth this year went, but I am SO excited that the holidays are almost here!

1920s through the present Quartz clocks Mechanism: Electrically induced vibrations of quartz crystal Error: From 10 seconds per day for a cheap watch to 0.3 second per year Accurate enough to: Measure variations in the rotation rate of the Earth

The minimum speed near apoapse, about 1.8 degrees per Earth year, is slower than Neptune.)

Although the storms are relatively rare — they occur less than once per Titan year, which is 29 and a half Earth years — they occur much more frequently than the scientists expected.

It won't take long to understand why travelers voyage to the WETTEST PLACE ON EARTH year after year.

Down to Earth Years ago there was a vegan restaurant in Red Bank New Jersey called Down to Earth.

Given this distance, it takes approximately 80,000 Earth years for GU Psc b to make a complete orbit around its star.

13 Laser beams bounced off mirrors left behind by Apollo astronauts show that the moon is moving 1.5 inches farther from Earth each year.

I felt like we all lived what was actually several Earth years watching Harden just hang out watching Johnson before Milos Teodosic mercifully decides to end it.

Some simulated impacts created depletions that were still felt across the whole Earth a year later.

These gusts sweep past Earth year - round, which returns us to the original question: why do auroras appear more often during spring and autumn?

The hundreds of new homes expected to emerge from the ash - coated earth this year — and the next year, and the next — are equal to the rate of boom - time construction activity in Fort McMurray.

Still, there is plenty of stuff to run into up there — about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust wafts down onto Earth every year.

Up to 84,000 meteorites pelt Earth each year.

BACK TO EARTH This year Hamilton is once again on sabbatical.

On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.

These physicists say that if neutrinos were really as fast as the Gran Sasso data indicate, the neutrinos from the supernova, 168,000 light - years away, should have arrived on Earth some years before the photons from the supernova.

The energy this event generated has finally reached Earth this year.

It not only orbited the space rock for an entire Earth year but also landed on it.

Between 5 and 10 percent of stars surveyed have planets at least 100 times as massive as Earth with orbital periods of a few Earth years or less.

With this new Earth year we move towards global connections and creating success through collaboration.

Recommended sequence: Year 7 Map Skills Rainforests Settlement Rivers UK, Weather and Climate Year 8 Coasts Extreme Environments Tourism Fragile Environments Year 9 Development Gap Energy Population Hazardous Earth Year 10 Development Dynamics The UK's Evolving Physical Landscape The UK's Evolving Human Landscape Forests Under Threat Year 11 People and The Biosphere Consuming Energy Resources Challenges of an Urbanising World

So that this might be achieved, the 260 day period of the Mayan calendar was further combined with a basic Earth year of 365 days, as a means to generate an extended 52 year period of time.

Some journalism students at Ohio University weighed in on Dot Earth this year on how people might keep up with environmental issues in 2015.

That ice core analysis (as shown by Al Gore in his movie) shows that for hundreds of thousands of years, CO2 and temperatures have moved together, demonstrating that CO2 is the main thermostat of the Earth

Added to this would be the changing apparent position of Alpha Centauri B during its long eighty - year elliptical orbit with respect to Alpha Centauri A. (The average speed, at 4.5 degrees per Earth year, is comparable in speed to Uranus here.

Though the premise has the makings of a reasonable sci - fi movie — two guys stranded on earth years after civilization — somewhere along the line something has gone very, very wrong.

The Cassini - Huygens mission launched 20 Earth years ago.

In fact, the fluke of geometry is also a fluke of history: Because the moon's orbit drifts about four centimeters farther from Earth each year, there will come a time when the moon will no longer appear to cover the sun, notes planetary scientist John Dvorak in Mask of the Sun.

A 60 - year drought that scorched the Southwest during the 12th century may be a harbinger of things to come as greenhouse gases warm the Earth

-- Underdogs may be coming down to earth this year as they went just 23 - 26 ATS this past week but are still 276 - 258 ATS on the year.

It performs a flyby of Earth and continues thrusting with the ion drive to lower its energy with respect to the Earth - moon system, so that when it comes back to Earth a year later, it can use a lunar flyby to reenter high Earth orbit and await its next mission.

This makes it one of the largest close approach asteroids to brush past Earth this year, and presents NASA with a valuable opportunity: To test out its planetary defense systems.

Kargel is the international coordinator of Global Land Ice Measurements From Space, a satellite program dedicated to photographing each glacier on Earth every year.

maybe he gets a longterm deal, or maybe he gets injured and comes back down to earth this year.

One of the reasons people thought the Flyers would return to earth this year was Keenan himself.

You know that movie Interstellar, when they go onto the planet orbiting close to a black hole that causes time dilation, which makes an hour on that planet equal seven Earth years?

Since reusable diapers are great for the earth all year round, it's like a gift that keeps on giving!

Well, here is a meteorite that fell to the Earth some years ago.

The Cassini space probe has been monitoring Titan since 2004, but as the moon's year lasts 30 Earth years, it has only ever seen one season.

The mission will last two Earth years.

The trouble with designing a nice, regular calendar is that each Earth year is 365.2422 days long, leaving extra snippets of time that don't fit nicely into a cycle of 24 - hour days.

Observations made between 2002 and 2009 show that the time between transits is shortening by 60 milliseconds per Earth year, say Elisabeth Adams of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues (Astrophysical Journal, vol 721, p 1829).