Sentences with phrase «from outer orbits»

In terms of strategic military use of L - points, «there are some interesting ideas (though from our side) about the utility of L - points as parking spots for reserve in - orbit spares and possibly for anti-satellites coming in from outer orbits, taking out GEOsats (geostationary satellites) and the like from unexpected angles,» Cheng said.

Not exact matches

Its Falcon 9 rocket touched down successfully on a drone ship, after taking a commercial communications satellite up to Geostationary orbit, an outer point some 22,370 miles from Earth.

One by one, Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury are all tossed out of their orbits as Jupiter swings around our star on a path that takes it from the outer solar system to the sun's searing doorstep.

A new analysis of outer solar system orbits suggests that there really could be a hitherto unseen giant planet orbiting far from the sun — but what are the implications?

This means that it takes energy — from light, for instance — to pull them away from the nucleus and force them into outer orbits.

What's more, the outer margin — the side of the orbit furthest from the nose — is recessed much further back in the human skull than in other ape skulls.

The bodies that orbit the outer planets much farther from the Sun are just as interesting and there are more of them.

One of these electrons, however, circles alone in an outer orbit, far from the nucleus.

The simulations show that gravitational interactions involving giants in outer orbits can eject smaller planets from the system, nudge them into their stars or send them crashing into each other.

Many observers assumed that such bottom feeders were mostly attracting papers of dubious scientific value, if not plagiarized or fraudulent reports, from institutions in academia's outer orbits.

Kepler - 186f orbits its star once every 130 - days and receives one - third the heat energy that Earth does from the sun, placing it near the outer edge of the habitable zone.

As it spins around in this tight orbit, gravity from the host star is pulling away its outer layers.

It was proposed that shadows from in the inner, faster - orbiting disks may be projected to the outer disk, creating the illusion of structures (like the larger dark gaps where the spiral arms join the rings, and elsewhere), where none exists.

Assuming that the infrared emissions are from from silicate grains at 0.25 micrometers, however, the disk would be located at an outer orbit of 120 ± 20 to 220 ± 10 AUs (Vogt et al, 2009).

Planet «c» or «2» - A residual drift in the radial velocity data over several years suggest the presence of an even larger planet in an outer orbit, at about 3.73 AUs from 47 UMa (between the average orbital distances of Jupiter and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System).

Astronomers studying a disk of material circling a still - forming star inside our Galaxy have found a tantalizing result — the inner part of the disk is orbiting the protostar in the opposite direction from the outer part of the disk.

The main objectives of the mission include obtaining new data on solar activity to help to better forecast space - weather events like solar flares which can directly impact Earth and orbiting satellites, trace the flow of energy from the Sun, better understand how the Sun's outer atmosphere is heated, and explore the physical mechanisms which accelerate the solar wind.

Pluto's orbit from the Sun varies from 4.4 to 7.7 billion kms and for the most of its orbit it is the outer most planet.

Kepler 10b was detected using the transit method from more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft between May 2009 and early January 2010 and confirmed by radial velocity measurements, and there evidence for another planet (KOI 72.02) in an outer orbit with a period around 45.3 days (Kepler news release; images, animations, and discovery page; and Batalha et al, 2011).

Pluto has long been a misfit in the prevailing theories of the solar system's origin: it is thousands of times less massive than the four gas - giant outer planets, and its orbit is very different from the well - separated, nearly circular and co-planar orbits of the eight other major planets.

In many ways, the Juno mission is a groundbreaking one for NASA: It's the first solar - powered mission to the outer planets and the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole.

Although 220 km (137 miles) in diameter, the largest outer moon, Phoebe, is dark with a retrograde, highly inclined orbit and so may be a captured icy body from the Edgeworth - Kuiper Belt rather than a moon that formed with the giant planet.

Numerous new outer moons ranging in size from three to 50 km (almost two to 31 miles) with irregular «long and loping» orbits were discovered in 2000, and one that may be 8 km (5 miles) wide was discovered in 2003.

What artist Robert Smithson called «Where remote futures meet remote pasts» in his essay «A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects,» (1968), discussed in Sarah J. Montross, «Cosmic Orbits: Observing Postwar Art of the Americas from Outer Space,» in Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas, ed.

Figures from outer space perform domestic tasks such as mowing the lawn; space men happily orbit starry objects.

Then, Kandinsky's telescoping circles are launched into swirling orbit while a man in red views the scene from outer space, suggesting a divine, cosmic perspective.

Outer loop orbits that reach the greatest distance from the SSB coincide with the largest solar cycles (sunspot count) along with inner loop orbits that come closest to the SSB.

There are 2 orbits consisting of an outer orbit that takes the Sun away from the SSB (outer loop) and a smaller orbit that returns the Sun to near the SSB (inner loop).

Planetary gravity forces from the outer 4 planets over 100,000 years gradually change the shape of Earth's orbit from circular, to elliptical along with shorter term changes in the inclination angle and winter precession timing.