Sentences with phrase «equatorial planes»

In the early 1990s, one study found that coplanarity between the orbital and equatorial planes of nearby binaries (within 100 parsecs or 326 ly) that are composed of Sol - type stars (F5 - K5 V) «exists» for binaries with orbital separations up to the average orbital distance of Pluto in the Solar System — roughly 40 times the Earth - Sun distance or «astronomical unit» (AU).

In 2013, the Kepler spacecraft found two with orbits that are aligned with each other but tilted at about 45 degrees to the equatorial plane of their star, Kepler - 56.

According to the data obtained from the stellar occultation, the ring lies on the equatorial plane of the dwarf planet, just like its biggest satellite, Hi'iaka, and it displays a 3:1 resonance with respect to the rotation of Haumea, which means that the frozen particles which compose the ring rotate three times slower around the planet than it rotates around its own axis.

These profiles are different from those of known type Ic supernovae, with or without a gamma ray burst, and they can be understood if SN 2003jd was an aspherical axisymmetric explosion viewed from near the equatorial plane.

But the particles in the disk would have kept rotating in the original direction, even though they would have ended up in the new equatorial plane.

The current generation of satellites was built by Rockwell International and Lockheed Martin, and each one orbits the planet in about 12 hours, cutting across the equatorial plane at an angle of roughly 55 degrees.

They still orbit in the equatorial plane of the fallen giant, a path you wouldn't expect if a cosmic interloper had struck only the planet.

Follow - up observations may show whether the dust leaves the asteroid in the equatorial plane, which would be quite strong evidence for a rotational breakup.

Occasionally, they would get close enough to gravitationally tug the moon away from the equatorial plane, before crashing into the Earth.

Most probably, the main body (the bar, or cork) is a bright and slightly elliptical ring we see edge - on, from only a few degrees off its equatorial plane.

Geosynchronous orbit is in time with the parent body, but in the case of the Earth (geo), unless aligned with the equatorial plane, will seem to bob up and down in the sky.

We happen to see this one approximately from its equatorial plane (approx.

Those in the equatorial plane will appear stationary, hence geostationary.

Recent models of this process predict that the orbit of the newly formed Moon should be in, or very near [less than 1 °], the Earth's equatorial plane.

u The Moon's orbital plane is inclined 18.5 ° — 28.5 ° to Earth's equatorial plane.

Table 21 contains a listing of 40 moons whose orbits lie within two degrees of its planets equatorial plane and are remarkably circular.

Having a moon's orbit lie in its planet's equatorial plane (which Earth's moon does not) also demands a physical explanation for how that happened.

Assuming a circular shape yields the inclination of its equatorial plane with respect to that of the sky, i > 53deg.

Re my: (solar or lunar - driven precession itself can't (approximately) happen at those times when the sun or moon cross the equatorial plane)... refering specifically to the component of precession that is wobbling of the Earth's angular momentum vector in an inertial reference frame; another component comes from shifting of the semimajor axis.

This correlation with the spatio - temporal distribution of solar system mass wrt the solar equatorial plane might help:

A great question steve, I have looked at this above / below the solar equatorial plane a few times with some neat software made available by semi, so far nothing has surfaced as a possible driver of hemispherical power.

During periods of minimum solar activity, when the HCS is flat, particles drift along the equatorial plane and away from the Sun for positive polarity periods, while the opposite occurs for negative polarity periods.

One thing I hadn't realized (sunspots not being my thing) is that the 11 - year cycle is actually two phases of a 22 - year cycle that could be described as a magnet rotating at a rate of one revolution per 22 years and producing sunspots most strongly when it's normal to the Sun's equatorial plane.

Not exact matches

Our solar system is thus situated within the outer regions of this galaxy, well within the disk and only about 20 light years «above» the equatorial symmetry plane (to the direction of the Galactic North Pole, see below), but about 28,000 light years from the Galactic Center.