Sentences with phrase «first objects known»

The four Galilean moons, the first objects known to orbit another planet, are named for Galileo Galilei, who is credited with discovering them in 1610.

Not exact matches

Horgan's government defended Clark's approval despite knowing there were bureaucrats who were pulled off the Kinder Morgan file by the Clark government because they objected to the way First Nation and Squamish concerns were being ignored.

The Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the human soul in his image) with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.

First, yes... I know... I'm being hyper - literal here, but I wouldn't argue with an inanimate object such as a book.

First in Socrates did the individual soul attain to self - awareness in the sense of knowing itself as an object of its own inquiry and its own activity.

The object I felt the second time may not be the object I felt the first time, no matter how short the interval between my two sensations.

What happens if an opponent of the faith objects to this dogma claiming that it is a contradiction because, as he understands it, the dogma claims that three equals one and, as any first grade student of mathematics knows, three does not equal one, but three.

They also can count three objects correctly, begin to tell stories, and know their first and last name.

Mobiles are a great way to challenge them to look at objects that are very slowly moving and to capitalize on their «quiet alert» state - all while your baby gets the tremendous benefits of stretching and strengthening out of their curled up womb position (did you know that's one of their first motor tasks?!).

Its name loosely means «a messenger that reaches out from the distant past» in Hawaiian, and is the first known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System.

My husband and I spent our first few hours in Collata making formal presentations to the village officers, requesting permission to study two rare and precious objects that the community has guarded for centuries — bunches of twisted and colored cords known as khipus.

First, they suggest that the two properties of a single object that can not be known simultaneously can be thought of as two streams of information encoded in the same particle.

It is the first known in an entirely new class of Pluto - like objects that are waiting for discovery.»

Astronomers are confident they know what the mysterious massive object at the Milky Way's heart is — but our first direct view this year could bring a shock

David Jewitt and Jane Luu of the University of Hawaii uncovered the first Kuiper belt object — a 100 - mile - wide frozen ball known as QB1 — in 1992.

As well as this black hole, Messier 15 is known to house a planetary nebula, Pease 1 [4]-- and it was the first globular known to contain one of these objects [5].

«Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf: Difficult spectroscopic observations reveal properties of the coldest known object outside of our solar system.»

For the first time in history, humans knew the stars not just as points on a sky chart but as objects with defined locations in three - dimensional space.

Still, the burst puts scientists closer to the first generation than ever before: It is about 150 million years older than any other known astrophysical object, says astronomer Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in England, the lead author of one of the new Nature papers.

But a police investigation has been launched and, if the object is confirmed as a drone, it will be the first known collision of its kind in the UK.

«We know that the first primordial objects in the solar system were very porous,» Bland said.

The two objects could be the first examples of a proposed class of ultra-cool brown dwarfs known as the Y - class.

Recent studies of an association of stars called TW Hya have revealed some of the first known isolated giant planet - sized objects in the neighborhood of our own Sun, about 100 light years away.

This is the first known example of a gravitationally bound pair of planetary mass objects, and astronomers can't agree on a name for them.

Thus, in a theory known as the Nice model (for Nice, France, where it was first proposed), scientists suggested that these objects formed closer to the Sun, where faster growth was possible.

The more objects that are found at extreme distances, the better the chance of constraining the location of the ninth planet that Sheppard and Trujillo first predicted to exist far beyond Pluto (itself no longer classified as a planet) in 2014.

The first modern Kuiper Belt Object discoveries, besides Pluto, were made in 1992 and now we now have a census of almost 2,000 known KBOs.

This object was certainly known to medevial Persian astronomers before 905 A.D., and cataloged and described by Persian astronomer Al Sufi in 964 A.D.. All other galaxies have been discovered only after the invention of the telescope: The Triangulum Galaxy M33 was first seen by Italian Priest astronomer G.B. Hodierna before 1654.

Although the exact nature of the object remains a mystery, the team members currently believe that GCRT J1745 - 3009 is either the first member of a new class of objects or an unknown mode of activity of a known source class.

It is the first known object with a relatively circular but highly tilted orbit beyond Neptune and Pluto.

Then in 1992 they spotted the first known object in the Kuiper Belt, the region beyond Neptune's orbit which is distant from the Sun by between 30 and 50 times the Earth - Sun distance.

In the early seventeenth century, Galileo pioneered telescopic observations of the Sun, making some of the first known observations of sunspots and positing that they were on the surface of the Sun rather than small objects passing between the Earth and the Sun.

David Jewitt and Jane Luu discovered the first Kuiper Belt Object, known as 1992 QB1, in 1992.

(It was one of the first pieces I ever bought at Anthropologie, and we all know that I have weird emotional attachments to the inanimate objects hanging in my closet.)

I know its first come first serve for physical objects, but I just want Majora's Mask and Mario Tennis!!

The first time you tried, the object no doubt slipped through your fingers.

However, they'll know it's something unique and exciting when the first interactive object appears.

9 • solve one - step problems involving multiplication and division, by calculating the answer using concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with the support of the teacher • recognise, find and name a half as 1 of 2 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • recognise, find and name a quarter as 1 of 4 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • Compare, describe and solve practical problems for: lengths and heights [for example, long / short, longer / shorter, tall / short, double / half]; mass or weight [for example, heavy / light, heavier than, lighter than]; capacity / volume [for example, full / empty, more than, less than, half, half full, quarter]; time [for example, quicker, slower, earlier, later]; • measure and begin to record the following: lengths and height; mass / weight; capacity and volume; time (hours, minutes, seconds) • recognise and know the value of different denominations of coins and notes • sequence events in chronological order using language (for example, before and after, next, first, today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon and evening) • describe position direction and movement including whole half quarter and three quarter turns PLUS MANY MORE OBJECTIVES!

Another first for a minivan was the Windstar's reverse - sensing system (a $ 245 option), which uses four ultrasonic beams in the rear bumper to let the driver know whether there are objects in the vehicle's path while backing up

I believe the Mystery Case Files (MCF) games were the first hidden object computer games created for adults - although I could be wrong (it's been known to happen on occasion).

Thus in the Preface to Person and Object (1979) he writes «The book would not have been completed without the epoch - making File Retrieval and Editing System...» [21] Brown University's work in electronic book systems continued for many years, including US Navy funded projects for electronic repair - manuals; [22] a large - scale distributed hypermedia system known as InterMedia; [23] a spinoff company Electronic Book Technologies that built DynaText, the first SGML - based e-reader system; and the Scholarly Technology Group's extensive work on the Open eBook standard.

Did you know that Dogs judge objects first by their movement, then by their brightness, and lastly by their shape

and, humans being human, we can turn it around — that young man will probably quickly realise that that «girl who's into not just Saul Bellow, but also into bowling and cellphones and Star Wars and swish Charity Balls» is really, really cute, no matter what the first impression Social objects in common make relationships.

Korean artist Lee Ufan is widely known as one of the founders and major proponents of the avant - garde Mono - ha (Object School) group, Japan's first internationally recognized contemporary art movement, in the late 1960s.

«Koons is widely known as the maker of a handful of iconic objects, but this retrospective will for the first time demonstrate how they fit together as part of a compelling and multifaceted story that will surprise even those familiar with his work.

Extraordinary examples of handmade stone tools, some of the first aesthetically - conceived objects known to humankind, will be included in the exhibition First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone which opens Jan. 27 at the Nasher Sculpture Cefirst aesthetically - conceived objects known to humankind, will be included in the exhibition First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone which opens Jan. 27 at the Nasher Sculpture CeFirst Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone which opens Jan. 27 at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

Though less well known than some of her successors (Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Gregory Crewdson), Callis was one of the first photographers to work extensively with constructed sets, arranging models and tactile objects in ambiguous, often unsettling tableaux.

Every object in the show, no matter how banal on first glance, rewards extended looking, as testaments to craft and extraordinary attention to the details that separate the real from the unreal.

Comprised of nearly 200 pieces in a wide range of media including sculpture, painting, photography, installation art, found objects, film, and art books, the exhibition is the first to feature this little - known artist in the US.

I first saw his work in a Whitney Biennial in the mid 1970s, only I didn't know who had made the objects I noticed — in fact I wasn't totally sure the strange objects were artworks in the exhibition — strange steel wool like oblong discrete objects placed in unusual locations, inside the building, but not exactly where an art work might be located — near a fire alarm, above an exit door, and, as I recall, outside the building as well.