Sentences with phrase «gravity boost»

This article appeared in print under the headline «Dark matter alternative gets a galactic gravity boost»

The spacecraft had to travel 2.2 billion miles in getting to Saturn, using four roundabout gravity boosts involving flybys of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter.

Comets passing near large planets often are torn apart by gravitational effects or receive gravity boosts that fling them, like slingshots, out of the solar system forever.

As you might expect, many swarms, trying to spiral out beyond Neptune, were (1) perturbed by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, (2) pulled apart by tidal forces, and (3) given gravity boosts.189 These bodies, called centaurs (after the mythical man / horse creatures) resemble both asteroids and comets.

Like a zoom lens on a camera, the cluster's gravity boosts the light of the distant protogalaxy to make it look 20 times brighter than normal.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., supervises the Dawn mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in September 2007 and flrst flew by Mars for a gravity boost.

The designated explorer, a 1,000 - pound, $ 550 million spacecraft called New Horizons, swung around Jupiter in February 2007 for a gravity boost and is scheduled to arrive in July 2015.

They will often loop around a planet to get a «gravity assist» or «gravity boost.»

The NASA craft then made a brief encounter with an asteroid, and proceeded to Jupiter where its 2007 flyby provided a gravity boost, increasing its speed by more than 9,000 miles per hour.

The following year, on 24 June, the spacecraft passed Venus for a second time to get another gravity boost.