Sentences with phrase «loops around the sun»

Akatsuki has been looping around the sun since 2010, after an engine misfire prevented the spacecraft from slowing down enough to be captured by Venus» gravity.

Launched in 2004, Rosetta has spent a decade looping around the sun.

The meteors are bits of dust and rock from the tail of Comet Tempel - Tuttle, which does a loop around the sun every 33 years.

The object loops around the sun on a highly elliptical path that takes more than 1,100 Earth years to complete; it's currently about 92 astronomical units (AU) from the sun but comes as close as 38 AU and gets as far away as 180 AU.

Not exact matches

Stars yanked from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (red) loop around the Milky Way and dive near our sun (yellow dot).

These swarms follow a looping orbit around the sun; the apparent source of the meteors, known as the radiant, marks the direction from which they hit us.

These objects have corkscrew orbits, slowly looping around Earth, while following its orbital motion around the Sun.

As summarized by geoscientist James Kasting in his 2010 book «How to Find a Habitable Planet»,» [h] abitable zones around Sun - like (F, G, and Early K) stars should be relatively wide because of the natural feedback between atmospheric CO2 [carbon dioxide] levels and climate — the same feedback loop that kept the Earth habitable early its history.