Sentences with phrase «full orbit around»

Her satellite made one full orbit around Planet Earth every sixteen hours.

Earlier this summer, the spacecraft made its first full orbit around the gas giant — the first of 36 planned flybys during the 20 - month mission — flying 2,500 miles above the planet's dense clouds.

In some simulations, the stars spread along a full orbit around the galactic center.

In practice, this means observing a planet for at least one full orbit around the Sun.

Like many of her colleagues, Spilker first began working on Cassini in the 1980s, some 30 years ago — about the same time as it takes Saturn to make one full orbit around the sun, and time enough to get family - close to colleagues, to raise children, to watch them grow.

In fact, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the sun.

Not exact matches

Also known as a perigean full moon or perigee syzygy, a supermoon happens when the moon is full at its closest point in its not - quite - circular orbit around Earth.

It takes Venus 117 Earth days to rotate once, and 224.7 Earth days to complete an orbit around the sun, meaning there are less than two full days in a single Venusian year.

These turn out to be a pager, a mobile big enough to drag other objects into orbit around it, and a fist - full of batteries for said boulder - sized mobile.

A quick right - left flick, and the Cadillac CTS Vsport slides gracefully and easily around the circle, falling into such a predictable orbit that I make a full rotation before straightening back out and exiting.

17 weeks after the events of Aliens, the Sephora spaceship sends a full battalion of Colonial Marines to investigate the Sulaco spaceship, now in orbit around the LV - 426 moon.

Although the primary driver of glacial — interglacial cycles lies in the seasonal and latitudinal distribution of incoming solar energy driven by changes in the geometry of the Earth's orbit around the Sun («orbital forcing»), reconstructions and simulations together show that the full magnitude of glacial — interglacial temperature and ice volume changes can not be explained without accounting for changes in atmospheric CO2 content and the associated climate feedbacks.

A quick introduction for those of you who don't know about CLOC: CLOC is the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium — a volunteer - driven group made up of legal ops professionals (both lawyers and professional staff) who carry the full - time and multidisciplinary responsibilities of law practice management in legal departments; there's also a robust group of interested parties that orbit around the CLOC membership community — ALSPs (alternative legal service providers) and law firms, consultants, legal tech innovators, and managed service companies; the collective group that many CLOC - ers, led by co-founder Connie Brenton, refer to as their partnering «ecosystem.»

We got a full seven days out of it in our initial use, but the more we played around with it and found new functions that put the battery to more use, 5 to 6 days became the standard, though the Orbit keeps a running tally of the last 7 days and overwrites the oldest data as it goes.