Sentences with phrase «in eccentricity»

The changes in eccentricity of Earth's orbit are due to alterations in the gravitational tugs induced by other planets.

Well what about this increase in eccentricity * adding * heat to earth core.

This is exactly the point: The Earth's orbit is not an airplane's path, but it does pendulum swings along its progressive track, which have not been taken into account by the IPCC (they only did changes in eccentricity of the orbit and remained silent about the pendulum swings).

Abstract Spectral analysis of climate data shows a strong narrow peak with period ~ 100 kyr, attributed by the Milankovitch theory to changes in the eccentricity of the earth's orbit.

Boiled down to simplest terms, they consist of a 100,000 - year cycle in the eccentricity of Earth's orbit, similar to the big 405,000 - year swing; a 41,000 - year cycle in the tilt of Earth's axis relative to its orbit around the Sun; and a 21,000 - year cycle caused by a wobble of the planet's axis.

«Yes,» Monckton agreed imperturbably, «the precession of the equinoxes, and variations in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and in the obliquity of its axis with respect to the plane of the ecliptic.

Anyhow, the bottom line is small variations in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit is generally recognised as being the principal reason for why ice ages come to an end.

Jupiter's gravity affects the eccentricity of Earth's orbit, and there is a cycle in that eccentricity that is about 100,000 years.

Variations in eccentricity can be shown mathematically to cause variations in the annual mean distance between Earth and Sun, and of course the solar intensity reaching Earth varies with the square of that distance.

«T» denotes changes in the tilt (or obliquity) of the Earth's axis, «E» denotes changes in the eccentricity of the orbit and «P» denotes precession, that is, changes in the direction of the axis tilt at a given point of the orbit.

However, changes in eccentricity interact with seasonal effects induced by obliquity and precession of the equinoxes.

Changes in eccentricity alone have limited impacts on insolation, due to the resulting very small changes in the distance between the Sun and the Earth.

«T» denotes changes in the tilt (or obliquity) of the Earth's axis, «E» denotes changes in the eccentricity of the orbit (due to variations in the minor axis of the ellipse), and «P» denotes precession, that is, changes in the direction of the axis tilt at a given point of the orbit.

Re 37 Kevin McKinney — actually, orbitally - forced global annual average changes in TOA solar insolation are very small (in the case of Earth) and depend only on variations in eccentricity (setting aside the idea that there is a plane of dust and the plane of the orbit has a significant effect that way — heard the idea awhile ago, not sure there's much to support it?).

-- which by the way is an argument for why the Ruddiman hypothesis for an «expected» ice age is not valid - we should be «expecting» a 40,000 year warm period similar to what was recently discovered at Vostok for the time ~ 400,000 years ago when we were last at this point in the eccentricity cycle!)

Then there are classic oddballs like Surrealist doll contortionist Hans Bellmer, wild performance artist John Bock, pervy comix guru Robert Crumb, self - hypnotizer Matt Mullican, spooky just - off sculptor Duane Hanson, and many more — and those are just the professional artists, who pale in eccentricity compared to Swedish art mystic Hilma af Klint, self - taught deaf illiterate James Castle, freak - out musicologist Harry Smith, and Austrian anthroposophy founder Rudolf Steiner (that's right: not Rudolf Stingel... Rudolf Steiner).

The original World War 2 - inspired tale was charming, goofy and ridiculous in its eccentricity.

Ten years since its debut, Pathologic has spread to become a worldwide cult classic, its macabre storytelling both unsettling and alluring in its eccentricity, its gameplay prodding at the fragile boundaries of convention.

Campos, who also produced the festival's blood - chilling The Eyes Of My Mother, has cast Rebecca Hall as Christine, and she's truly terrific in the role — melting down in slow - motion, commanding in her eccentricity.

There is evidence that Earth has gone through at least one globally frozen, «snowball» state in the last billion years, which i... ▽ More Although the Earth's orbit is never far from circular, terrestrial planets around other stars might experience substantial changes in eccentricity that could lead to climate changes, including possible «phase transitions» such as the snowball transition (or its opposite).

It's not that Alessandro Michele's spring and fall designs aren't steeped in eccentricities, because you and I both know that this very kitschiness is making both Gucci and Kering quite a bit of money.

After the casino launches, the script never revels in the eccentricities of the characters who show up there or the oddity of the situation.

Didn't we actually revel in those eccentricities, cherishing the quirkiness, because that was the price of character?

Its inaugural show is Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray - Jones and Martin Parr, an exploration of two photographers who found inspiration in the eccentricities of English society.

Not exact matches

The firm «caught up in understanding the eccentricities and weirdness of dealing with external hackers and, at same time, it has learned from the model and they are investing in it now, which I think is incredible.»

Downey received a tour of the SpaceX headquarters from Musk in 2007 and picked up on some of what he has described as «accessible eccentricities.»

He's found investors to back him and customers who are indifferent toward, or even admiring of, his eccentricities — American Apparel racked up US$ 558.8 million in sales last year, up from 2008.

Similarly, few novelists have tapped into this era's motivations, anxieties and cultural eccentricities as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities did in the eighties or Jonathan Franzen managed a decade later with The Corrections.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and enti.tle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.»

His strongest apostrophes of rage, guilt, and frustration occur midway through a narrative interspersed with background stories: tales about his ancestors and their adventures in Europe, his mother's education, the lives of his friends and neighbors, his grandmother's obsession with cleanliness, and his grandfather's eccentricities.

There is no question that in much fundamentalism and evangelicalism, the Word of God is held captive to the parochialisms of this age, not to mention the personal eccentricities of domineering, authoritative preachers.

If you only said you believed in an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent «friend», that might be regarded as a mild delusion, dismissible as an eccentricity.

Likewise, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) was important and influential in its day, but today's reader is more likely to notice such eccentricities as an astonishing chapter arguing that the postwar suburban home was «a comfortable concentration camp» that aimed at the «progressive dehumanization» of women.

They have come to be seen in secular society as holdovers from the past: conservative, patriarchal, out of touch with contemporary values and lifestyles - even an eccentricity, as appears innumerous film and television portrayals.

There is always someone else to consider, it is not so easy to find time for yourself and there is a lot of compromising to be done as you bring two people's habits, eccentricities and family traditions into one household, so what is the hurry to move in together?

Such aspects of things as these, their naturalness and unnaturalness, the sympathies and antipathies of their superficial qualities, their eccentricities, their brightness and strength and destructiveness, were inevitably the ways in which they originally fastened our attention.

Downtown Las Vegas is very eclectic, and the Plaza enjoys that diversity and eccentricity that you'll be hard - pressed to find in the mega resorts of the Strip.

There's always one first round series that stands out from the others in its extreme eccentricities and rapid momentum swings.

A beefy former All - Ohio single - wing center at Baldwin - Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, he's clearly as enthralled with the eccentricity of using the single wing in this era as with the formation's effectiveness.

At the beginning of the second half Rangers appeared almost resigned, and the jubilant Celtic support were giving voice with «We're off to Dublin in the green, in the green...» They were silenced abruptly by the first of Fallon's moments of eccentricity.

That type of behavior is penalized pretty much universally, maybe, not always seen as MLS has the fortune of really good broadcasting able to catch eccentricities in between plays.

«Patricia was so brilliant in making that eccentricity attractive and dignified in the way that she makes clothing art.

Jeremy Corbyn's belief in homeopathy may seem like a silly eccentricity, but it speaks to a larger aversion to objective truth among the political classes

But this year, voters seem much more willing to overlook such eccentricities, in this race and around the country, if they come from a candidate with outsider passion and righteous anger.

Referred to as «extreme KBOs» (eKBOs) by the authors, all of these have extremely large orbital eccentricities, in other words, they get very close to the Sun at one point on their orbital journey, only to swing far out into space once they pass the Sun, on long elliptical orbits that take these strange mini worlds hundreds of AUs away from the Sun.

Hamers» calculations show, however, that high - eccentricity migration in planet systems with three to five planets can explain at most only 1 percent of the observed hot Jupiters.

In astronomical jargon, the process by which long, oval orbits change into close orbits is called «high - eccentricity migration».

«Step back and think about this: Small variations in the orbital parameters of the Earth — tilt and eccentricity and wobble — are recorded on the sea floor,» says Richard Katz, a geodynamicist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and a co-author of the Science paper.

In vivid prose that details all of Fuller's eccentricities and achievements, Keats strips away the icon's layers to reveal a truer, even more fascinating portrait of the 20th century genius.