Sentences with phrase «in orbit around them»

The models can be viewed in either the traditional Bohr model, which shows an atom with a central nucleus with electrons in orbit around it, or with the quantum mechanical model, which shows off the atom as an electron cloud.

Are these in orbit around the earth or are these being made in a solar orbit?

Did you know that Planet earth is soaring through space in orbit around our sun at an incredible 66,000 miles per hour 24/7?

We have now a spacecraft in orbit around Mercury and should shortly have very precise radio ranges.

RACookPE1978 says: July 31, 2011 at 4:48 pm Please explain how a body in free fall can be in orbit around another body.

Please explain how a body in free fall can be in orbit around another body.

The new study was possible in part because Cassini has been in orbit around Saturn long enough to obtain the large number of observations required to see subtle patterns emerge from the day - to - day variations in weather.

For example, some people consider astrophysical factors such as changes of the Sun in its orbit around the Milky Way, some are considering the implications of magnetism, and others changes in the Length of Daylight (LOD).

Anyway, the analyses I happen to be most interested in are space - based: the potential for creating a self - growing factory complex on and in orbit around the Moon, capable of creating an exponentially growing supply of space - based power collectors and transmitters.

2 stars (or planets etc) in orbit around each other will each follow a regular ellipsoidal trajectory around their joint centre of mass.

-- but — how would you engineer particles to put in orbit around an asteroid at L1?

Much of the contemporary art created by young artists during the Bush years is also locked tightly in orbit around Modernism's collapsed star.

The mission would place a spacecraft in orbit around...

Part figurative deconstruction, part abstract invention, Curry's 14 site - specific, boldly painted, larger - than - life sculptures evoked the theater designs of Matisse and Picasso, positioned as if in orbit around the iconic Revson Fountain on Josie Robertson Plaza.

At the edge of the universe, the research ship Xanadu rests in orbit around an unknown planet.

The game starts with the Spirit of Fire, your ship from the first game, coming out of a 28 - year - long drift in hypersleep in orbit around a strange space station.

The game goes beyond Gotham by offering not only The Watchtower, the space station home of the Justice League in orbit around Earth, but also each of the Lantern planets, which, while scaled down in size, allow you to ride, fly, and explore.

17 weeks after the events of Aliens, the Sephora spaceship sends a full battalion of Colonial Marines to investigate the Sulaco spaceship, now in orbit around the LV - 426 moon.

«Aliens: Colonial Marines begins with an ostensibly abandoned ship, the U.S.S. Sulaco, recovered in orbit around LV - 426.

This level takes place in orbit around Omicron 6, the home of the sinister Necris.

However, there's many other firms in orbit around this opportunity.

Well, there's still one outer space locale left in orbit around Battleworld, and it's a location the Guardians are very familiar with.

Indeed, one of the chief weaknesses of Silence is that so many of the characters in orbit around Rodrigues convey more narrative gravity than he does himself: Asano's translator, Ogata's inquisitor, Kubozuka's fickle Kichijiro, Driver's Father Garupe, a village elder played by Yoshi Oida.

In the development of this central relationship, the film treats James as just another person lucky enough to be in orbit around Franny — he doesn't assist her emotional journey so much as she becomes his much - needed muse.

I assumed that all they did was plant three monoliths in our solar system: one on Earth, one buried on the moon, the third in orbit around Jupiter.

Pulsars are the high - density, rapidly spinning corpses of dead stars, raking any planets in orbit around them with searing lances of radiation.

Rosetta is currently about 100 km (62 mi) from Churyumov — Gerasimenko and will remain in orbit around it for over a year until the comet swings back toward Jupiter.

The two large» Trojan» swarms are located on either side of Jupiter in its orbit around the Sun and the smaller «Hilda» swarm is always located on the opposite side of the Sun from Jupiter.

Small «chips» might be expelled, but only in extremely rare circumstances would they be placed in orbit around the asteroid by the gravitational attraction of other debris.

So you could get humans in orbit around Mars without raising the NASA budget beyond letting it increase with inflation, which is an increase but not an extraordinary one.

Larger sails can thrust against Earth's gravity and not even be in orbit around the Earth, and a pole sitter could sit continuously over Earth's poles and can provide continuous data on the polar ice caps.

This system contains a Venus - massed planet in orbit around a brown dwarf which is also in orbit around a low - mass star.

A group of astronauts may spend a year in orbit around the moon in the late 2020s as part of NASA's plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, agency officials said today (May 9).

If a planet got that close to our hot sun, it would be burnt to a crisp; for a planet in orbit around Proxima Centauri, this location is an oasis.

Stallard and his team will be taking advantage of the Juno spacecraft currently in orbit around Jupiter, particularly the observations of Jupiter's aurora and upper atmosphere by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument.

Juno is currently scheduled to remain in orbit around Jupiter until July 2018, but NASA is looking at ways to extend the mission.

LADEE is (the name is short for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer andpronounced «laddie») is an 844 - pound (383 kilograms) spacecraft that launched from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 7 and arrived in orbit around the moon last month.

This is the largest - ever planet found in orbit around a binary star system, and like our own solar system neighbor, is a gas giant that probably has moons.

Astronomers can observe a star accelerating in orbit around an unseen companion, rather than a detectable binary companion star (see video above).

Scientists would place the $ 1.27 billion SOHO in an orbit around the Lagrange L1 point — an area in space where the gravity of the sun and the Earth balance each other out.

The close - in orbit around the cool star implies a mean surface temperature of between 0 and 40 degrees C - a range over which water would be liquid - and places the planet in the red dwarf's habitable zone.

Artist's conception of the Venera - D spacecraft in orbit around Venus.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe continues to image and study the surface of the Red Planet and gather data about the Martian atmosphere today, nearly 10 years after arriving in orbit around Mars.

Basically, when a person looks at the same stars when the Earth is at different places in its orbit around the sun, the closer stars will appear to move position relative to the more distant stars.

They include a pair of stars in orbit around each other, with circumstellar disks surrounding each star and a circumbinary torus and disk that orbits the combination.

NASA, Boeing and Orbital ATK are focused on habitats in cis - lunar space, while Lockheed Martin yesterday announced a «vision» for a Mars Base Camp in orbit around Mars in 2028.

The Mars Odyssey spacecraft journeyed for more than six months before placing itself in orbit around the red planet in October, 2001.

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.

That said, the concept of the «habitable zone» may be a bit of a misnomer, as life may be able to emerge outside of this area, such as on moons in orbit around gas giants.

An artist's impression of pulsar PSR J1930 - 1852 shown in orbit around a companion neutron star.