Sentences with phrase «gravitational tidal effects»

The resilience of the dusty cloud to the extreme gravitational tidal effects so close to the black hole strongly suggest that it surrounds a dense object with a massive core, rather than being a free - floating cloud.

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He also adds: «The tidal effect on an asteroid, which rapidly rotates under the gravitational field of a planet, can fragment these objects or release large rocks from its surface, which could then become such dangerous projectiles at a local scale as the one fell in Cheliábinsk (Russia) on February 15th 2013.»
Tidal effects and gravitational disturbances from relatively large bodies are required to explain the sharp inner edge of Fomalhaut's debris belt, astronomers believe.
«The disc is more dense, so the effect of the gravitational tidal force is bigger,» says Randall.
Instead, he defines the gravitational field in terms of the difference in the acceleration from place to place — in effect, the tidal force.
Hank (360), despite the equality of gravitational forces, I agree the inequality of tidal acceleration makes it extremely difficult to imagine it as having any effect on any solar cycle.
The preoccupation with focusing only on the visible surface of the earth, and disconnecting the strongest tidal and gravitational forces in the Earth / Moon system has lead to this misunderstanding of why the lunar tidal effects (when not considered) that produce the teleconnections seen in so many global circulation patterns leaves so many easy to answer questions.
Everything evens out in the wash so that the only gravitational effect is tidal.
They do not calculate body - wide tidal forces in their paper, but look at perturbations induced by gravitational forces directly on the inelastic material of the sun «locally focussed tidal effects» if you will.
Should have said: This is the essence of how the overall local effect of gravitational forces acting on an object are reduced to the net effect of tidal forces in the Newtonian mechanical view.
It would also be consistent with your «stream of consciousness» musings about tidal effects being greater deeper within celestial bodies (because the gravitational force is less?).
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