Sentences with phrase «major planets of our solar system»

The areas of science in which you can ask specific questions and get a fully deterministic answer are very small (you can't even predict where the major planets of the solar system will be a few hundred million years hence, and that's a pretty well restricted problem!).

Not exact matches

Our Sun is more active than ever recorded and every major catastrophe on this planet in the past couple of years can be directly related to events in our solar system.

An unusual set of orbits in the distant solar system suggested the gravitational influence of an unseen major planet.

In keeping with all the rest of Ceres's oddball uncertainties, the findings hold major albeit nebulous implications for our understanding of the dwarf planet and its relationship to the other large objects in our solar system.

Unlike every other major satellite of every other planet in our solar system, our moon ignores the axis of its parent planet and instead circles in nearly the same plane that Earth and the other planets orbit around the sun, offset by slightly over five degrees.

Phobos orbits closer to a major planet than any other moon in the solar system, less than 6000 km (3728 miles) above the surface of Mars, and is also one of the smaller known moons in the solar system.

The orbits of Star A's planetary system appears to have suffered from a major disturbance since the formation of its planets, when compared with planetary orbits found in the Solar System (system appears to have suffered from a major disturbance since the formation of its planets, when compared with planetary orbits found in the Solar System (System (more).

Pluto has long been a misfit in the prevailing theories of the solar system's origin: it is thousands of times less massive than the four gas - giant outer planets, and its orbit is very different from the well - separated, nearly circular and co-planar orbits of the eight other major planets.

He is saying that less than.2 % (he is only including the major planets) of the mass of the solar system is regulating the sunspot cycle.