Sentences with phrase «like orbit»

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»

Ira Glickstein, PhD says: May 8, 2011 at 4:26 pm «If we then placed that planet in an Earth - like orbit around the Sun»

The ship grabs these beacons like a tractor beam, circling the beacon like an orbit.

Aware of the brand loyalty to genre - specific publishers like Orbit, Tor, and Harlequin, we're going to replicate that in - house.

There have been other candidate objects discovered in the past that might have a Sedna - like orbit, but with 2012 VP113 never approaching more than 80 AU from the Sun, its status as a member of the inner Oort Cloud is concrete.

In a few other cases a candidate planet had been observed near a star but had not been proved to follow a planet - like orbit.

Then repeat the process to create something like an orbit.

By next spring, the planet - hunting space telescope known as Kepler — rejected by NASA three times but then approved after those initial detections of exoplanets in the 1990s — will most likely report the discovery of the first known Earth - like planet in an Earth - like orbit.

Further discoveries and patents led to WGM biosensors capable of gauging the mass of viruses, proteins and other nanoparticles by sending them into spacecraft - like orbit around the micro-bead, thanks to a photonic «tractor beam» caused by the resonating light.

The process will demand at least three years to find a completely Earth - like planet: one that is in a yearlong, Earth - like orbit around a star just like the sun.

The premise of a ballistic capture: Instead of shooting for the location Mars will be in its orbit where the spacecraft will meet it, as is conventionally done with Hohmann transfers, a spacecraft is casually lobbed into a Mars - like orbit so that it flies ahead of the planet.

It's not a huge problem and only happens some of the time but it's not an issue in a stroller with a more snug seat, like the Orbit.

We had to weigh if it made sense to go with a system like the Uppababy Vista, where we could potentially add on another kid down the line, or something sleep like the Orbit.

If they were nearly the same, this would suggest that the cause was something opaque, like an orbiting disk, planet, or star, or even large structures in space» said Wright, who is a co-author of the paper, titled «The First Post-Kepler Brightness Dips of KIC 8462852.»

This results in familiar phenomena like orbiting moons, planets and stars, as well as some stranger effects like cosmic ripples and black holes.

They have really really long orbits around the sun, but like all orbiting bodies, they travel in predictable patterns.

That technique most readily picks up Jupiter - size planets in fast, Mercury - like orbits, objects unlike anything in our solar system.

A large number of exoplanets and planet candidates are known, but the Earth - size exoplanets in Earth - like orbits still reside in an open part of discovery space.

In 2026, The European Space Agency is expected to launch PLATO, a satellite with the potential to discover rocky planets in Earth - like orbits with periods of a year.

This means it can't stare at the same patch of sky for years on end, and so it probably won't be finding Earth - size planets with Earth - like orbits.

Norton says future missions to find Earth - like planets in Earth - like orbits will be when the real search for signs of alien life will begin.

«Could the MBCs [Main Belt Comets; comets in the asteroid belt] be comets from the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud that have become trapped in asteroid - like orbits?

be comets from the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud that have become trapped in asteroid - like orbits?

However, the telescope will explore a much larger region of the sky than Kepler, with an emphasis on detecting rocky planets on Earth - like orbits that receive a similar amount of radiation as our own planet (the so - called habitable zone).

Previous observations have provided tantalizing, but weak hints of a small companion orbiting this red dwarf star, but this new campaign will make a more sensitive search for the telltale wobbles in the dwarf star's orbital motion that might reveal the presence of an Earth - like orbiting planet.

For instance, the Kindergarten class used our second - grade lesson inspired by Kirchner's Hockey Players to support the learning about forces of motion; the third - grade Van Gogh Starry Night lesson turned out to be perfect to help first - grade students discuss patterns in space (like orbits); and students focused on principles of biomimicry through our first grade Banda Mask project.

Not exact matches

They're dulling us in the process to the real world and real people around us, making us blind to anything outside our own orbits, blind even, say, to something like a young man on a train wielding a 45 - calibre pistol.

Like, in other words, the payload - to - orbit of the vehicle.

He is asked to play a focal point character; actors like Nicholson, Day - Lewis, and Shannon are free to play the biggest possible version of themselves while orbiting.

Musk notes that making it into orbit requires going eight times faster and producing 65 times more rocket energy than a suborbital vehicle like SpaceShipOne.

Viasat CEO Mark Dankberg believes that it's unlikely that the kinds of smaller satellites that companies like SpaceX or rival OneWeb are looking to deploy in low orbit will be able to offer Internet speeds that are as fast as the bigger satellites in higher orbit.

«My concerns are that these platforms were built from the ground up by white men and tested on their families and people in their orbit who looked like them, and they never thought about how their platforms could do harm,» Sarkeesian said.

With a more established presence in orbit, companies and space agencies will begin to explore experimental technologies, like in - orbit manufacturing.

Some are specializing in unmanned systems to delivery payloads like satellites into orbit.

On the discussion docket, per NASA's announcement on Zuckerberg's social media mecca, will be questions such as: «What is it like to live and work in microgravity orbiting the Earth?»

When he's not plotting the colonization of Mars and firing rockets into orbit, the gutsy billionaire lives it up like the rest of us, only bigger.

As companies like SpaceX aggressively seek to drive down the cost of space access, new opportunities — and new threats — are emerging in orbit.

Of course, for the roughly 95 percent of entrepreneurs not in professional investors» orbits, this all sounds like a discussion of «Who gets the foie gras?»

There's no scientific consensus as to how many of those stars might be like our own Sun, and how many may have Earth - like planets orbiting around them.

Next, if you take the lowest estimate of how many of those Sun - like stars have an Earth - like planet orbiting it (22 %), that means about 100 billion billion other Earth - like planets are out there.

I get frustrated and annoyed with things just like anyone else, but I've never felt the sentiment of these sentences - yet I've heard them from entrepreneurs looking to start their own companies, from consultants working on projects, and from people trying their best to orbit the giant hairball that is a Fortune company...

He says the money Xiaomi stands to make doesn't interest him in and of itself; those in his orbit say it's more what the money represents — the company joining the ranks of China's so - called national champions, the likes of Jack Ma's Alibaba, Pony Ma's Tencent Holdings Ltd., and Robin Li's Baidu Inc. «I wanted to lead a Chinese company,» the 48 - year - old says, «to become No. 1 in the world.»

Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sketched out a Jetsons - like future at a conference Tuesday, envisioning a commercial space - travel market with dozens of destinations orbiting the Earth and hypersonic aircraft shuttling travelers between continents in two hours or less.

It faces the challenge of living up to the faith of guys like Iridium's Matt Desch, who's counting on SpaceX to put nearly seventy satellites into orbit over the next five years.

Obama has been battling some in Congress over his plans to use more private space companies, like Space X, for getting people to orbit with NASA concentrating on missions to send astronauts to new places, such as nearby asteroids.

Last week, we covered how entrepreneurial space companies like SpaceX are planning major satellite constellations in low - Earth orbit, and how this influx of new technology will present a significant challenge for regulatory bodies.

I choose to live life to the fullest through joy of discovering His «art» like fractals, birth, consciousness, seasons, animals, the «mighty deep» thanks to a Creator rather than accidental and inconsequential life, while hanging in the perfect orbit between burning up and freezing, complete with the earth's own washing machine, the ocean, which cycles on accidental moon power.

The most recent Nature World News reported this week that a German weekly magazine announced that researchers have found an «Earth - like» planet orbiting Proxima Centauri — a star that's known as a «tiny, red dwarf.»

«THE END OF DAYS is near» January 1213 the earth will wobble causing earthquakes, lava will spill all over the earth the oceans will rise changing the topography, the atmosphere will be consumed, our planet will die and orbit just like our mom, a gusted, dust, desolate planet.

Evidence that's genuinely convincing will propagate just like the idea that the earth orbits the sun — at first, almost nobody believed it, but as more and better evidence was found, more and more people changed their minds until now practically everyone agrees that the earth orbits the sun, even though this is diametrically opposed to people's beliefs a few centuries ago.