Sentences with phrase «gravitational pull on»

And because West Antarctica is so massive, it has a dramatic gravitational pull on the objects around it.

During spring and fall, the sun lines up with the moon and other astronomical bodies to produce a stronger gravitational pull on the Earth.

Does the suns gravitational pull on the earth vary between solar maximum and solar minimum, which in turn affects the earths gravitation which in turn affects trade winds?

This movement creates the force of pressure which counters the gravitational pull on the atmosphere.

> Is not the Sun's gravitational pull on the Earth, and in turn the > tidal forces, exactly the same as the Earth's pull on the Sun...?

Yeah, and when I jump off a cliff my gravitational pull on the earth is exactly the same as the earth's pull on me.

«There is no gravitational pull on the moon to cause pen to come back towards surface.

Yet the causality sometimes runs the other way, with global developments leading the U.S. Ultra loose monetary policies in Japan and the eurozone have exerted a gravitational pull on yields worldwide.

Both sun and moon exert a gravitational pull on the earth.

The gravitational pull on the body affects the abdominal muscles which result in free bowel movement and indigestion, constipation is relieved.

This white dwarf of 0.55 Solar mass will exert a weaker gravitational pull on the remaining planets.

Kipping's exomoon detection involves discovering its gravitational pull on the orbital velocity of a planet host — which in turn, are often detected based on their gravitational pull around a star.

One possible explanation for this perturbation in the Hubble flow is the existence of the so - called Great Attractor — a region or structure of huge mass (equivalent to tens of thousands of galaxies) exerting a gravitational pull on the surrounding galaxies.

Dark matter makes up about a quarter of the universe and exerts a gravitational pull on visible, «normal» matter and light.

After running out of fuel, and with no way to increase its altitude, MESSENGER was finally unable to resist the sun's gravitational pull on its orbit.

Second, to find a planet like Earth, and especially to see it directly rather than just detecting it by the wobble caused by its gravitational pull on its sun, the array of telescopes used to create the interferometer would have to be launched into space to get them above our planet's murky atmosphere.

First, they showed that when this happens, the disc would exert a stronger gravitational pull on the solar system.

Regions where water is being removed from the ground have less mass and therefore exert a smaller gravitational pull on the...

Fabo Feng at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK and his team detected the planet through changes in light caused by its gravitational pull on its star.

The brown dwarf was effectively hidden by the dust until we looked with the right instrument,» added Parsons, «but when we observed SDSS 1557 in detail we recognised the brown dwarf's subtle gravitational pull on the white dwarf.»

If each particle of dark matter was instead small and light, there should be a lot of them to account for the amount of dark matter indirectly detected in the universe by its gravitational pull on normal matter.

Greenland and Antarctica's massive ice sheets exert a strong gravitational pull on the waters around them, but as they melt, the attraction weakens, causing nearby sea levels to fall.

appear to be surrounded by massive haloes of dark, unidentified material which betrays its presence only by its gravitational pull on stars and other galaxies.

And much as one can apparently detect a black hole by seeing how it bends the light attempting to pass by it, I felt I could detect the value of Stephen's work by its gravitational pull on neighboring scientists in his field.

By sending microwaves between the two, it would be possible to calculate that staggered acceleration, and thus infer the change in gravitational pull on Earth's surface.

Until now, proof of black holes» existence had been inferred from the powerful gravitational pull on various stars by small, invisible objects.

Measuring the influence of the Milky Way black hole's gravitational pull on the timing of close - orbiting pulsars could do the trick.

Pioneer 10 has been slowing down, as if the gravitational pull on it from the sun is growing progressively stronger the farther away it gets.

As it melts, sea levels around it will fall, say Natalya Gomez and Jerry Mitrovica of Harvard University and colleagues: with the mass of ice shrinking, its gravitational pull on the seawater will be weaker.

For instance, black holes exert a powerful gravitational pull on nearby stars.

Scientists have argued that the sun's gravitational pull on the planet's very dense atmosphere could have caused strong atmospheric tides.

Regions where water is being removed from the ground have less mass and therefore exert a smaller gravitational pull on the satellite.

«Thanks to him we know any two objects in the universe that have mass exert a gravitational pull on each other» begins an article explaining Newton's Law.

Moreover, Amazon's presence alone has a gravitational pull on other companies, as it signals a thriving environment for business and innovation.

Sea levels are effected by movement of land masses both upward and downward, changes in gravitational pulls on the water due to changes in ice masses.

Not exact matches

Even outside Southeast Asia, in other parts of Asia, China's gravitational pull and its soft power have had an influence on democracies.

From commercials predicated on creating desires rather than on meeting utilitarian needs, to the therapeutic rhetoric of politicians of Left and Right, the gravitational pull toward a psychological understanding of the self is powerful and omnipresent.

since the Sun is the biggest object in our solar system, it makes sense that it would have the strongest gravitational pull, just as it makes sense that we weigh less / have less gravity on the moon since it is not as large or as dense as the Earth.

They create no changes in gravitational pull, solar radiation, planetary orbits, or anything else that would impact life on Earth.

Several years ago I felt a gravitational pull (i.e. a God - calling) to begin researching and writing on the subject of special needs inclusion in the church.

Even though the system's gravitational pull is towards the dehumanization of its members, I have seen moments of heroic advocacy on behalf of its members.

The slope of the psychosocial continent on which we live is away from close relationships; hence the gravitational pull is toward passing without really meeting — like ships in the night.

Triple H was caught up in the gravitational pull of his own hubris, feeling he could take on Ronda Rousey in a match where men aren't supposed to be fighting against women — he nearly paid for it with a broken arm.

On the 36th minute goal scoring play it was the gravitational pull of Lodeiro that drew FOUR defenders towards his off - ball run, opening Morris in tons of space to pick out Dempsey.

«He's on the list, and if there wasn't this enormous gravitational pull toward Hillary, he'd be at the top of it,» said Matt Bennett, a former aide to Bill Clinton and Al Gore and co-founder of the moderate Democratic group Third Way.

Yet these cosmic bodies exerted a gravitational pull, tugging back on each other just like the sun reined in the Earth.

Over time, additional matter glommed on to dense spots due to the stronger gravitational pull from the extra mass.

Based on its estimated speed and direction of travel, the object appeared to be on a «hyperbolic» trajectory, moving out from the sun fast enough to escape our star's gravitational pull entirely.

Ongoing work includes reworking the calculations of the physics by factoring in smaller influences on a Mars - bound spacecraft than the pull of gravity from Mars itself, such as Jupiter's gravitational pull.

For one, stars on the edges of galaxies are zooming around too fast for the gravitational pull of the mass we can see, and should be flung off.