Sentences with phrase «hour orbital period»
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We show that this pulsar is in a binary system with an orbital period of 2.2 hours.
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Researchers have discovered an Earth - sized exoplanet named Kepler 78b that whips around its host star in a mere 8.5 hours — one of the shortest orbital periods ever detected.
Researchers at MIT have discovered an Earth - sized exoplanet named Kepler 78b that whips around its host star in a mere 8.5 hours — one of the shortest orbital periods ever detected.
By tracking the frequency at which certain starspots reappeared, Sanchis - Ojeda determined that the star completes a full rotation every 12.5 days — considerably longer than the planet's orbital period of 8.5 hours.
«Until now with Kepler, we never talked about orbital periods of 4, 5, 6 hours,» says Sanchis - Ojeda.
These newfound worlds all orbit their stars with orbital periods of less than 12 hours.
The parent comet (Tempel - Tuttle) has an orbital period of a bit more than 33 years, and so we see storms when the Earth happens to pass close behind the comet, such storms lasting only a few hours.
Europa's orbital period is 85 hours.
In these cases, astronomers can reliably determine their short orbital periods, ranging from hours to days to a couple years.
Abstract: Kepler - 78 (KIC 8435766) was identified by Sanchis - Ojeda et al. (2013) as harbouring a transiting planet of 1.16 times the size of the Earth and an orbital period of only 8.5 hours.
The planet orbits the primary star with an orbital period of 17.3 days and a transit duration of 3 hours.
All are orbited by white dwarfs with orbital periods ranging from 4 to 27 hours.
The planet has an orbital period of 3.213 days and shows transits with a relative depth of 0.87 x 10 ^ -LCB--3 -RCB- and a duration of about 3.95 hours.