Sentences with phrase «intervals as the planet»

So we will measure a smooth dip in the brightness of the star at regular intervals as the planet passes in front.

Not exact matches

A planet passing in front of its star, as seen from Earth, will block a bit of the star's light at regular intervals.

But whatever the source of the stellar noise, Gilliland says that Kepler will have to detect twice as many transits of Earth - like analogues than planned — an average of six passages per planet rather than three, at intervals of roughly a year — to be sure that a dip in starlight is a true signal of an Earth - sized body.

As the dwarf planet's shadow passed across eight telescopes at five sites in central South America, it blocked light for intervals ranging from 59 seconds to 66 seconds, suggesting that Makemake is a 1500 - by -1430-km ellipsoid, researchers report online today in Nature.

If a star dims at a regular interval, the Kepler team flags the signal as a candidate planet.

Only for the planet as a whole, instantaneously at various intervals, provided you are looking from far enough away from Earth, (like maybe from mars), to homogenize the areas that are net absorbers with the areas that are net emitters.

all volcanic... Your attack on the good Lord is not warranted, as clearly he only suggested this as another possible source of heat coming at regular intervals coming from the center of earth... Now, unless you claim to know exactly how much heat is coming from all external and internal sources of heat (which I think even includes the planets and the moon), I would expect you to make some sort of an apology after making such a blatant accusation.