Sentences with phrase «in a stable orbit»

The final rocket stage separated an hour and 45 minutes after launch, and soon afterwards the control room confirmed that the spacecraft was in a stable orbit facing the sun.

In this area, gravity from the sun and the planet pull equally, keeping the satellite in a stable orbit.

The final stage separated an hour and 45 minutes after launch, and soon afterwards the control room confirmed that the spacecraft was in a stable orbit facing the sun.

They eliminated those with orbital radii less than one tenth that of Earth's, because at that distance moon systems might not remain in stable orbits around their planets on billion - year timescales.

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 0.036 AU from Star B — well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 1.18 AU from Star A — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

For example, William Paley, already in 1802, in his treatise Natural Theology, pointed out that if the law of gravity had not been a so «called «inverse square law» then the earth and the other planets would not be able to remain in stable orbits around the sun.

Other than Sol itself, however, only Alpha Centauri A and B may possibly be capable of hosting Earth - type planets in stable orbits within their respective circumstellar habitable zones (CHZs).

Just as longitude couldn't be effectively calculated until 1764, when John Harrison's chronometer was tested on a voyage to Barbados, so the geographical positioning system couldn't be created until there was a way to mount highly accurate clocks in stable orbits.

Instead, it would have spent a long time in a stable orbit around a single star before encountering the dangerous influence of Alpha Centauri A and B.

There is one puzzling region in our solar system that appears to be empty, even though it should easily be able to support thousands of objects in stable orbits.

(The gas is in a stable orbit beyond the point where it would be pulled into the black hole.)

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 3.5 AU (within a predicted habitable zone ranging between 2.3 and 4.8 AUs) from Star A — between the orbital distances of the Main Asteroid Belt and Jupiter in the Solar System (NASA Stars and Exoplanet Database).

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 0.88 AU from Star A (but ranging between — between the orbital distances of Venus and Earth in the Solar System.

While Hamers thinks that the earth will then remain in a stable orbit, this is really only small consolation: around the same time, the sun will grow into a «red giant» and completely engulf the earth.

Keplerian disks, that is disks with Keplerian rotation, are very likely to eventually form planets in stable orbits.

In stable orbit around Ceres, Dawn will continue circling even after it runs out of fuel late next year (SN Online: 10/20/17).

Both motherships are in stable orbits, Manchester says — offering enough time for mission controllers to attempt various fixes — and Sprites have previously withstood long - term exposure to space.

In a small number of the simulations, it eventually wound up in a stable orbit around one of the stars.

He pointed out that there are many close - orbiting planets around middle - aged stars that are in stable orbits, but his team doesn't know how quickly this young planet is going to lose its mass and «whether it will lose too much to survive.»

Orbit: To support life, a planet must be in a stable orbit around its star — no planets with wonky orbits that will eventually dump them into their star for a fiery death.

They remain in stable orbits either leading or following the planet in its own orbit, 60 degrees before or after the planet.

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 1.02 AU from around 18 Scorpii — around the orbital distance of Earth in the Solar System.