Sentences with phrase «long orbit around the sun»

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

Saturn's long orbit around the Sun means its seasons change slowly over the course of 29.5 Earth years.

Not exact matches

The Orbit of The Sun: Scientists have long believed that the earth revolved around the sun, which was stationaSun: Scientists have long believed that the earth revolved around the sun, which was stationasun, which was stationary.

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — The solar system has gained a new extreme object: L91, a small, icy world with one of the longest known orbits, taking more than 20,000 years to go around the sun.

In addition, these stars are not orbiting the galactic center inside the Milky Way's spiral arms like the Sun, but they originate from the spherical Galactic halo that surrounds the Milky Way's main disk, while briefly intersecting it in their long, elliptical orbits around the center.

Dr. Stern: Well, as you know Triton used to be a small planet of its own, orbiting the Sun and was captured into orbit around Neptune long ago.

Models of the surface environment using Pluto and Charon's known orbit around the Sun demonstrate that Charon's north pole has experienced long periods of continuous extremely low temperatures, cold enough to trap methane that has escaped from Pluto's atmosphere.

For one thing, it traces a long, oval - shaped route around the sun, rather than a nearly circular orbit.

Comets travel in an orbit; a short orbital - period comet is one that takes 200 years or less to go around the Sun, and a long orbital - period comet takes more than 200 years — often thousands or even millions of years.

The postulated and very likely cause of the ice ages are variations of the earths orbit around the sun, and variations of the inclination of the earth's axis in relation to this orbit, which cause variations of the sun's heating of different parts of the earth at different times of the year (mainly the northern hemisphere) over long periods of time (tens of thousands of years).

The eccentricity of the Earth's orbit around the Sun has longer quasi-periodicities at 400,000 years and around 100,000 years.

The argument goes something like this: There are long - term cycles, called Milankovitch cycles, in the Earth's tilt and orbit around the sun.

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 Milankovitch.