Sentences with phrase «far small masses»

But traditional methods that rely on measuring how far small masses are pulled by the gravitational force of larger masses nearby only provide relatively rough estimates of its value.

They shared the same region of space, between Mars and Jupiter, and had a far smaller mass.

Not exact matches

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

The birds look out at me, at the man holding his iPhone to the wall so a distant friend can pray into its mortar, at the Israeli soldiers completing their training and swearing to die for their country before this last remnant of the second Temple, at the masses of praying men and women — the women in a smaller area, separated from the men and further from the holiest part of the Wall.

Also small scale production often needs far less energy than mass production.

Prior scrutiny of the typical star Gliese 876 had rustled up two Jupiter - size companions, and further research revealed a third body, dubbed Gliese 876 d, pegged at 7.5 Earth - masses — the smallest - mass exoplanet then known.

From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

Although some of the galaxies have initial mass functions like the Milky Way's, others have a far greater proportion of small stars, with the most massive elliptical galaxies being the most extreme.

A favored size for Planet X emerged — between five and 15 Earth masses — as well as a preferred orbit: antialigned in space from the six small objects, so that its perihelion is in the same direction as the six objects» aphelion, or farthest point from the sun.

The planet may have a mass as small as 1.4 times that of Earth; the smallest worlds discovered thus far are around five times the mass of Earth.

The image also suggests that low mass brown dwarfs — objects that have the awkward distinction of being too large to be called planets and too small to be categorized as stars — may be more common than observations so far suggest.

A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.

The mass of the black hole is somewhat arbitrary — the distorting hole could be a big one far away, or a smaller one close by.

They further culled this sample by removing any small planet that had a companion planet larger than 10 times Earth's mass, since the larger planet would affect where the small planet naturally tended to form.

SETI Institute scientist Jason Rowe returns to tell us about the smallest exoplanet so far that has had its size and mass determined.

I hope that this trend is here to stay, as these small - batch goods with a story are far more responsible than mass - produced, wear - and - tear home accessories from large chains that are often made with questionable sourcing and production methods.

The actual boost to calorie burn is actually relatively small — about 7 calories per day per pound of lean muscle mass (this is a far cry from the often - cited 50 calories per pound muscle mass per day), but the long - term payoff can add up, especially when added to the calorie burn experienced during and post-exercise.

Unlike diamonds mass - produced in industrial mines, hot - forging is actually a small batch process making the gems very rare (far less than.01 % of the quantity of diamonds mined from the Earth.)

Other continents were relegated to the «outer reaches» of the page and often reduced to vague blotches far smaller than their actual land masses warranted.

The only trouble is, the eBook conversion is proceeding a lot slower in the specialty markets than the bestseller markets and since our markets are far smaller to begin with, it may be a long time before eBooks reach critical mass for us.

By letting small businesses, small or Indie developers the opportunity to have access to Hololen, not only are they giving them the ability to become accustomed to the technology, they are in essence pushing the tech further towards the goal of mass adoption.

A private Facebook message from Lucia Diego, director of LD50 (a small gallery in the East End), voiced vague equivocal support for alt - right principles and Donald Trump — «I'm not even sure if I disagree with the Muslim ban» — and led to a mass of Facebook responses when artist Sophie Jung (who was rightfully alarmed by Deigo's far - right leanings) posted it online for pubic view.

So far, the initial effect is still relatively small for two reasons: (i) part of that effect has been canceled temporarily by increases in sulfate aerosol, and (ii) the warming has been delayed because it takes a long time for the vast mass of the ocean to heat up.

Second, the ocean near the melting ice sheet drops because the smaller ice - sheet mass has less gravitational attraction for ocean water than before, and thus the water released from the former gravitational attraction of the ice sheet causes additional sea - level rise far from the ice sheet.

Tides follow an inverse cube law (to a first approximation for systems experiencing tides due to masses relatively far away compared to the system's size; for systems that are not small relative to the distance to the object producing the tidal acceleration, I think it's more complicated), and so the inner planets gain in importance relative to the outer planets, although mass is still important (and nonetheless, tides raised on the Sun by the planets are so tiny it's hard to imagine they could be of any such significance).

The smaller of the two models is «further along in development» and is about to enter mass production, while the larger iPhone is in «preliminary development.»