Sentences with phrase «hours around an axis»

Earth rotates once every 24 hours around an axis that is tilted at an angle of 23 ° 30 ′ with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun.

Not exact matches

Our hours and days derive from the time it takes the earth to revolve on its axis; our months from the time it takes the moon to revolve around the earth; and the year from the time of the revolution of the earth around the sun.

«We posted a special squad to that axis and this squad while on patrol around 10:15 hours, sighted a man they suspected, may be because of his usual movement and the man looked strange to them and they questioned him and when they were not convinced, they took him to the station.

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

EL61, as it is officially known, is a mass of ice and rock that flops through space with a spin rate far faster than that of any known body its size, making complete rotations around its wide axis every four hours.

However, due to the rotation of Earth around its own axis, dark matter particles that come from the direction of the dark matter wind, travel different distances during the 24 hour period of a day.

Vesta revolves around its axis once very five hours and 20 minutes (NASA news release; and Jonathan Amos, BBC News, July 22, 2011).

For around two months each summer a tilt in the earth's axis means that the sun never sets in northern Norway and daylight lasts for twenty - four hours.

My planet rotates on its own axis every 24 hours, has an axial tilt and rotates around its star in an elliptical orbit every 365.25 days.

«The high rotation of the planet — about 10 hours for a complete turn around its axis — and the heat coming from the lower levels of the atmosphere certainly have a great impact to the formation of the cyclonic pattern we have observed over the Jupiter's poles,» he told Digital Trends.

It comes with a 5 - button Bluetooth controller with dedicated volume controls on the right side, a 220mAh battery that should last for around 12 hours of use, and a 9 - axis set of sensors for ultra precision tracking.