Sentences with phrase «in its orbit around the sun by»

To provide the necessary warning time, Carrington - L5 will utilize a gravitational balance point, known as L5, which would allow it to trail the Earth in its orbit around the Sun by about 150 million kilometres.

Not exact matches

- We were randomly spewed across the universe by a super nova - spinning rocks randomly affixed themselves in an orbit around a sun - by chance, the third rock from the sun was precisely the right distance to sustain life.

Just as believing that the earth orbits around the sun does not give me eternal life, so also, none of the beliefs I have just stated in the previous paragraph will give me eternal life by believing them.

Also, sun set and sun rise are predominantly caused by the rotation of the Earth around its own axis, and only in small part by its orbit around the sun.

Unlike every other major satellite of every other planet in our solar system, our moon ignores the axis of its parent planet and instead circles in nearly the same plane that Earth and the other planets orbit around the sun, offset by slightly over five degrees.

The moon is a bonanza for scientists, Kring says, because it offers crucial insights for understanding the origins and evolution of Earth and other planets: how they formed from the accretion and differentiation of smaller bodies; how they were bombarded by impacts early in their histories; and even how some of them migrated in their orbits around the sun.

The researchers determined that natural influences on Earth's climate, such as those caused by variations in its orbit around the sun, could affect the strength of El Niño events.

It follows Mars in its orbit, occupying a spot called L5, which lags the Red Planet by 60 ° as it moves around the Sun.

Trailing Earth in an orbit around the sun, Kepler monitors the brightness of about 150,000 stars, looking for periodic dimming that might be caused by a planet passing in front of its star.

The 20,000 - year cycle is driven by changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun, which affects the amount of sunlight received during any particular season.

The Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in 2009 by NASA to find Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, has found yet another exoplanet, which orbits around a star much smaller and cooler than the sun.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

Due to its orbit around the Sun, the asteroid is currently only visible by astronomers with large telescopes who are located in the southern hemisphere.

By observing the shift in the relative positions of stars in the sky relative to Earth as the latter moves in its orbit around the Sun, astronomers can triangulate their distance with great accuracy.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter will launch in 2018, and by 2021 will be in operational orbit around the sun.

The comet appears to have undergone visible changes, including the changes in the size and number of surface features such as smooth patches, pits, and craters, and the loss of ice vaporized by the Sun or blasted off its surface by the Solar Wind into its tail as well as failing back on the object like snow, so that it appears to shrink, on average, by 25 to 50 centimeters (9.2 to 19.7 inches) with each orbit around the Sun.

On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission flew at a close distance of around 435 miles (or 700 kilometers) by Comet Hartley 2, which was then an active short - period comet with jets of gas and dust coming off its sun - lit end and which completes an orbit in less than 6.5 years.

These pulses had a distinct regularity caused by wobbles in Earth's orbit around the Sun (Milankovitch cycles).

These large changes are driven by changes in the earth's orbit around the sun — see The Quaternary Period (Table 1)[2].

Greenhouse gasses and Temperature moved in lock - step through the Pleistocene Ice Ages, controlled by Earth's orbit around the Sun (Centre for Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen).

Ice ages are caused by periodic variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun (that's basic textbook material that I need not explain to an astrophysicist).

Although the primary driver of glacial — interglacial cycles lies in the seasonal and latitudinal distribution of incoming solar energy driven by changes in the geometry of the Earth's orbit around the Sun («orbital forcing»), reconstructions and simulations together show that the full magnitude of glacial — interglacial temperature and ice volume changes can not be explained without accounting for changes in atmospheric CO2 content and the associated climate feedbacks.

For example, the ice age — interglacial cycles that we have been locked in for the past few million years seem to be triggered by subtle changes in the earth's orbit around the sun and in its axis of rotation (the Milankovitch cycles) that then cause ice sheets to slowly build up (or melt away)... which changes the albedo (reflectance) of the earth amplifying this effect.

These seem to be caused by changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, made worse by the resulting increases and decreases in carbon dioxide.

A Serbian named Milutin Milankovich, writing in 1941, argued that ice ages and interglacials were instead caused by changes in the orbit of the Earth around the sun.

Variations in how the Earth is tilted and its orbit around the sun make for a pattern of planetary warming phases followed by cooling phases across the millennia.

The initial changes in temperature during this period are explained by changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun, which affects the amount of seasonal sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.

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In the distant past, warming episodes appear to have been initiated by cyclical changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun that caused more summer sunlight to fall in the northern hemispherIn the distant past, warming episodes appear to have been initiated by cyclical changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun that caused more summer sunlight to fall in the northern hemispherin Earth's orbit around the Sun that caused more summer sunlight to fall in the northern hemispherin the northern hemisphere.

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.

7 Movements of Earth in Space (Page 270) The climatic seasons that we experience on Earth are caused by a combination of Earth's annual orbit around the sun and its tilted axis of rotation.

If we then placed that planet in an Earth - like orbit around the Sun, short - wave Solar radiation would be absorbed by the surface of the planet»

It is common knowledge that the ice ages in the past were caused by variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun.

Over the several hundred thousand years covered by the ice core record, the temperature changes were primarily driven by changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun.

The 800 - year lag between the beginnings of temperature increase and CO2 rise in the polar ice record is because the initial warming that provoked the end of the ice ages was caused by changes in the Earth's alignment and orbit around the sun; not anthropogenic CO2.

During the glacial cycles of the past 800,000 years both CO2 and methane have acted as important amplifiers of the climate changes triggered by variations in Earth's orbit around the Sun.

They are now quite complex and factor in things like; variable output by the sun, variations in the earth's orbit around the sun, greenhouse gases AND dust from volcanoes, greenhouse gases from decay in wetlands and from agriculture (rice paddies are artificial wetlands), differences in the reflectivity («albedo») of different surfaces (grass reflects more sunlight than forest, and ice much more than open water etc.)... and there are many more.

At their most basic level, glacial cycles are caused by gravity: the gravity of other planets in the solar system, which influence Earth's orbit around the Sun.

The Earth - Moon doesn't orbit the Earth - Moon - Sun barycenter exactly but it is not orbiting the barycenter of the solar sysem either; to some approximation the innermost planets and the sun must wobble around the barycenter together as they are similarly affected by the outermost planets which happen to be more massive as well as more distant and thus dominate in their effects on the barycenter — things should tend to get more complicated when the planets involved are at more similar distancSun barycenter exactly but it is not orbiting the barycenter of the solar sysem either; to some approximation the innermost planets and the sun must wobble around the barycenter together as they are similarly affected by the outermost planets which happen to be more massive as well as more distant and thus dominate in their effects on the barycenter — things should tend to get more complicated when the planets involved are at more similar distancsun must wobble around the barycenter together as they are similarly affected by the outermost planets which happen to be more massive as well as more distant and thus dominate in their effects on the barycenter — things should tend to get more complicated when the planets involved are at more similar distances.

In the 1970s, the first comprehensive analysis of oxygen isotopes in sediments from cores taken from the sea floor established for the first time that the timing of the Ice Ages was linked to subtle changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun as suggested long ago by Serbian mathematician Milutin MilankovitcIn the 1970s, the first comprehensive analysis of oxygen isotopes in sediments from cores taken from the sea floor established for the first time that the timing of the Ice Ages was linked to subtle changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun as suggested long ago by Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitcin sediments from cores taken from the sea floor established for the first time that the timing of the Ice Ages was linked to subtle changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun as suggested long ago by Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitcin the Earth's orbit around the Sun as suggested long ago by Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch.