Sentences with phrase «full orbit around the sun»

In fact, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just 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 practice, this means observing a planet for at least one full orbit around the Sun.

Not exact matches

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.

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.