Sentences with phrase «large as our planet»

The observable material is a so - called debris disk consisting entirely of dust and large rocks, some of them possibly as large as planets.

The parent body was differentiated, meaning that it was large enough to separate into a core, mantle and crust, and was roughly spherical in shape, though not as large as a planet.

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With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

Among the companies that have gone from doubters to believers are some of the largest on the planet: Ford, Lockheed Martin, Nikon, Cisco, NCR, Sikorsky, Celestica, Avaya and Schneider Electric are just some of the multinationals Kinaxis now counts as customers.

Or perhaps did you think of it on a larger scale — as in, why are you here in this time in history, or on this part of this planet?

Stoyanova helps cultivate the largest creative community on the planet, produces her podcast The Work We Do, hosts impromptu poetry jams, and bridges industries and borders as an agent of change.

But as demonstrated by the massive die - offs at the largest reef system in the planet, these sorts of efforts won't be enough to save the world's reefs without dealing with the larger carbon emissions problem.

In October, Musk outlined the SpaceX strategy for reaching Mars and even his goal of settling large groups of people on the planet as part of his vision of making humans into a «multiplanetary species.»

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

Planet Organic Health Corp., which calls itself Canada's largest natural - foods retailer, began as a single 4,000 - square - foot store on Edmonton's trendy Whyte Ave?nue.

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) have long competed with each other as two of the largest and most successful social media networks on the planet.

Total volume in these markets benefited from an unusual number of very large transactions, such as Affinity Equity Partners» and SK Planet's $ 1.6 billion trade sale of Korea's Loen Entertainment and KKR's $ 1.2 billion exit of India's Alliance Tire Group.

Theo Phileo, There is a large differnce between believing «that life on this planet was seeded by aliens», (as you stated on July 17, 2014 at 11:57 am) and believing that it is possible that life here was seeded by aliens.

tell me though, we will still have troops as «advisors» and working in the largest embassy on the planet, troop surge... after Obama talked to Cheney...

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

If there were a large number (possibly infinite) of different physical laws (or fundamental constants) in as many universes, some of these would have laws that were suitable for stars, planets and life to exist.

Along with the importance of these relationships are several other key features: the nested hierarchies of organisation at hundreds - if not thousands - of different levels on this planet... the same laws of physics and chemistry function throughout the universe, and everything is related to everything else... as any system or organism is always a part of some larger system, organism or ecology, it in turn fulfils a certain function, or set of functions - which is often interpreted as having a certain «purpose» within that larger system.

Imagine the chronicle of evolution on our (roughly five billion years old) planet as represented in ten large volumes of five hundred pages each.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

«This really is new and welcome territory for Australian brands, where aspirational Australian brands such as A2 Platinum have such significant traction with the largest consumer market on the planet, in China.

The small but dedicated group originally shunned all meat on ethical and environmental grounds, opposing the way domestic livestock was kept and killed, as well as the impact that large - scale farming had on the planet.

Boateng's superb physical presence and fantastic ability on the ball has seen a large portion of fans label him as one of the greatest defenders on the planet.

The food issue however, looms larger in my house as I pack a lunch each day and worry about both saving the planet and exposing my child to toxins.

Pamela owns Organic Planet Services, a catering business that provides local organic food for large multi-day events such as yoga retreats, perma - culture design courses, and natural building colloquiums.

What I found to work best, on my nightstand I hang a wetbag (I hung mine on the edge of a small drawer that pulled out, the Rumparooz wet bags are great for this with their loop that snaps, as are the large planet wise or Wahmies wet bags).

As the largest environmental network in the world, 1 % Percent For The Planet helps individuals, businesses and organizations that

Kelly's Closet now carries Planet Wise, Itsy Ritzy, and Mission: Lunch Smart Bottoms snack bags, as well as the Ju - Ju - Be Fuel Cell, a larger insulated pouch that's perfect for foods or drinks you'd rather keep cool!

But, how large will be the impact of an economic sanction on a nation if the economic sanction is imposed by China and India as they are the 2nd and 5th largest economies of the planet with combined GDP of 13.46 trillion dollars (72 % of U.S.A's GDP) which shows that US is not the only nation with the economic might to impose economic sanctions on nations.

Overwhelming disapproval was launched at the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, with claims that it was acting fecklessly rejecting what many nations see as necessary progression towards a greener planet.

Meanwhile back here on planet Earth; where no one, (not even someone such as myself with a lifelong interest in politics,) has ever heard of either Jeremy Corbyn or Angela Eagle much before last week, the Ivory tower jibe chimes very much in tune with my own previous assessment of a now all but completely defunct Labor party completely out of touch with the public at large and with broader opinion, and out to lunch.

His rocket could also serve as a garbage truck, getting dead satellites and discarded upper - rocket stages out of their dangerous orbits around our planet (a job the larger chemical - fueled rockets can't perform efficiently because they use too much fuel).

Orbiting a large central Earth, the planets are depicted as star - like shapes, each identified with its traditional symbol.

Bright, large, and easy to find, it was so pretty that I would stare at it and wonder what it would be like to be on a planet inside there, with hundreds of stars blazing away as bright as Venus...

For instance, a 1665 illustration drawn by Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher depicts Earth's water systems as an underground network that churned with guidance from a large ball of fire in the planet's center, Cyr says.

The largest predatory fish on the planet inspired Steven Spielberg's movie Jaws, which sealed the shark's image as a man - eater.

Large earthquakes happen mostly along faults where tectonic plates meet as they move over the planet's surface.

As the world's largest science and technology magazine, Popular Science represents the best hopes for our planet, our lives, our children and our future through the individuals and ideas that are building a better world.

The researchers found that relatively cool accretion discs around young stars, whose inner edges can be several times the size of the Sun, show the same behaviour as the hot, violent accretion discs around planet - sized white dwarfs, city - sized black holes and supermassive black holes as large as the entire Solar system, supporting the universality of accretion physics.

Coupled with software to reduce assorted stellar background noise, it could measure light changes down to 20 parts per million, making it more than sensitive enough to detect an Earth - size planet around a sunlike star in an orbit as large as Earth's.

As the ring system spits out moonlet after moonlet, the small objects merge to form larger moons, which may merge in turn as they spiral outward from the planeAs the ring system spits out moonlet after moonlet, the small objects merge to form larger moons, which may merge in turn as they spiral outward from the planeas they spiral outward from the planet.

Dust belts are the remains of material that did not form into larger bodies such as planets.

Like a snowball rolling downhill, the coalescing moons grow larger and larger as they drift farther from the planet and its rings and undergo progressively more mergers along the way.

Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only such object classed as a dwarf planet.

For example, soil is second only to oceans as the planet's largest carbon sink, while agriculture and land use changes represent the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

The planet is home to the solar system's largest volcano, Olympus Mons, which is as tall as three Mount Everests.

It is great that this cruise departed from the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, which hosts a large scientific community that uses ocean drilling as a key tool to unravel how our planet operates and past climate and tectonic cycles.»

He cited several studies showing that a large number of species on the planet would become extinct in a «business as usual» global warming scenario.

The solar system's largest planet will dominate the spring and summer sky with the dim constellation Libra as a backdrop.

«Constraining this number is important to improve our expectancies of observing large impacts in the planet, such as the Shoemaker - Levy impact in 1996 and the 2009 impact.

After large volcanic eruptions that pump sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, such as that of mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, the planet cools for a year or two.