Sentences with phrase «fall out of orbit»

The idea is to sent rockets loaded up with water into space, release it, and create a wall of water that orbiting junk would bump into, slow down, and fall out of orbit.

That's enough to make small planets fall out of orbit and in the SRT Viper it means we can expect some stunning performance figures, with bhp per tonne up there with cars like the Veyron.

Did it make more sense to let the Hubble deteriorate and eventually fall out of orbit?

«Things will keep running into each other at a faster rate than debris will fall out of orbit,» Johnson says.

He argues for a law mandating that satellites fall out of orbit within 25 years — something that is now merely recommended — to keep them from becoming uncontrolled orbiting projectiles.

Why hasn't the earth fallen out of orbit, well thats because Atlas is holding it up!

@Chuckles «Why hasn't the earth fallen out of orbit, well thats because Atlas is holding it up!

A September report by the National Research Council found that the debris field is so dense that collisions between objects in orbit will create additional debris faster than space junk falls out of orbit.

Not exact matches

As the satellite traces out a 1.5 - hour - long orbit, a characteristic rise and fall in the difference between the two applied voltages would indicate that one of the cylinders is falling slightly faster than the other — and signal a violation of the equivalence principle.

As Pluto moves away from the Sun in its 248 - year elliptical orbit, temperatures plummet and these compounds freeze out of the atmosphere and fall onto the surface as frost.

When the rocks approach Jupiter, the occasional asteroid can find itself pushed out of the procession and into deep space; some spin out beyond Pluto's orbit, while others fall toward the sun, each with its own unique orbit.

The gas slows orbiting dust particles so much that they lose momentum, plummet out of orbit, and fall into the star, clearing out the disk quickly.

It was believed that the formation of two or more stars would hardly leave enough mass remaining to cohere into planets, and that even if those planets were created, the gravitational pull of a close second star would expel them from their orbits — either by shoving them out of the system or pulling them to fall into one of the stars.

There has not been a single satellite taking measurements since 1979; rather, new satellites are launched every few years as old satellites» orbits decay and they fall out of the sky.

As I understand it global temperatures are calculated as anomalies, thus removing seasonal swings, but that Heat Content is not, Now our dear planet has an elliptical orbit and is sometimes closer to the sun that others; sure, the shape of the land and oceans doesn't mean that the amount of incoming solar radiation falling on the oceans follows the Earths orbit, but it should be possible to work out the amount of incoming solar radiation each quarter.

The EDDE could then either fling the garbage back to Earth to land in the oceans, or push the objects into a closer orbit, which would keep them out of the way of current satellites until they decay and fall back to Earth.

For a relatively circular orbit, the problem of determining where Earth falls into and out of a Snowball is challenging.