Sentences with phrase «mass than the earth»

Computer simulations show that planets similar to or larger in mass than the Earth that are born with thick envelopes of hydrogen and helium are likely to retain their stifling atmospheres.

Well, dah, the sun has a lot more mass than the earth and would be counterbalancing all of earth's gavity many times over.

Not exact matches

The vortex, a mass of whirling gas much like a hurricane, is larger than the Earth and has top wind speeds of 220 mph.

Three thousand miles off the Eastern coast of New Zealand and more than 2 miles deep, it's the one place farthest from any land mass on Earth.

However, the Rosina mass spectrometer aboard Rosetta found that the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the comet is far greater than that found on Earth, adding to the growing body of evidence that the water on Earth was delivered not by comets, as previously thought, but by asteroids.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

The theory is that mass exerts a force on other masses and the greater the mass the greater the force, so the earth being much larger mass than you exerts a force that draws you to it and so on.

A single bacterial cell that divides every twenty minutes would multiply to a mass four thousand times greater than the earth's in just two days.

You can thump your chest and roar your bs «alpha male wan na be» roar all you like, but in reality land of USA and Earth 2016, pulling yourself up by your own boot straps is something rich people tell poor people to keep them hoping that maybe, just maybe, someday if I try hard enough... It's little more than a ploy to keep the masses from rebelling.

The first and second planets from the dwarf star are probably less than 15 percent water by mass, still far wetter than Earth, the researchers found.

The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles).

For more than a decade these Earth - observing satellites have provided some of the first environmental measurements on a global scale, including large - scale changes in the mass of polar ice.

55 Cancri's innermost planet, weighing in at more than 10 earth masses — meaning it could have a rocky or icy core — lies closer to its star than Mercury does to our own.

Of course, low mass is relative; the smallest of the planemos is still five times the size of Jupiter, which is more than 300 times as massive as Earth.

H. erectus never made it to Australia or the Americas, but other than that they colonised most of Earth's land mass.

GJ 1214 b's tale of the tape: about five Earths wide, with six - and - a-half times the mass, and a density several times lower than CoRoT - 7b's.

As the size of the planets we looked for decreased, the number that we found increased: We found more planets with 3 times the mass of the Earth than planets with 10 times Earth's mass, more planets 10 times as massive than 100 times, and so on.

Although theirs is perhaps the best - known mass extinction on Earth, by the author's account, the dinosaurs» reign was a massive success story — they thrived on the planet for more than 150 million years, and their descendants are the more than 10,000 species of birds that occupy almost every corner of the world today.

The exoplanet (a planet in another solar system) is about six times the mass of Jupiter and orbits about 40 percent closer to its star, dubbed HD 102272, than Earth does around the sun.

«Despite the fact that the moon is only about 1 percent of the Earth's mass,» Weiss says, «this tiny little thing seemed to have generated whopping magnetic fields lasting for an extremely long time — longer than you might think would be possible.»

The sheer scale of the Permian - Triassic mass extinction boggles the mind: More than 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out.

She found that planets two to four times the mass of Earth are even better at establishing and maintaining oceans than our Earth.

Along with Mars 2020, STMD is hard at work, advancing promising technology for potential infusion into these Mars missions including: Heat - shield for Extreme Entry Environment, a tailorable, woven thermal protection system that would reduce entry loads and greatly reduce heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like GPS.

If it had more mass than that of a large mountain, it would be stable and would immediately sink through the ground, consuming the planet from within until there was nothing left but an Earth - mass black hole, about one - third of an inch wide.

The previous record holder for a planet with a measured mass (Kepler - 78b) weighed 70 percent more than Earth.

By examining infrared data taken earlier by the Spitzer Space Telescope, they discovered a swath of dust particles ranging in size from 0.1 to 20 microns (finer than a split hair) that added up to the mass of a large asteroid and, based on their warmth, were strewn about 1.8 Earth — sun distances from the star.

The heavy elements, or metals, were surprising because white dwarfs contain about as much mass as the Sun squeezed into bodies the size of the Earth, giving them surface gravities 10,000 times stronger than the Sun's.

Gliese 876D, for instance, has an orbit tighter than Mercury's and a solid mass several times that of Earth, and it may rotate so slowly that sunrise, imagined here, unleashes a fiery hell.

What they found through their analyses was that the relatively «dry» inner planets (labeled «b» and «c» on this image) were consistent with having less than 15 percent water by mass (for comparison, Earth is 0.02 percent water by mass).

It's capable of putting 63,800 kilograms into low Earth orbit — that's more than a seventh the mass of the entire International Space Station — or bringing 16,800 kilograms to Mars.

This long - sought world was announced with great excitement in 2012 as the first Earth - mass planet in the nearest star system to our own, but a new statistical analysis has revealed it to be nothing more than an apparition.

Earth has experienced more than a dozen mass extinction events, when the great diversity of life on Earth disappeared and was replaced by a flora or fauna often entirely unlike what had come before.

While researchers estimate accretion during late bombardment contributed less than one percent of Earth's present - day mass, giant asteroid impacts still had a profound effect on the geological evolution of early Earth.

Earth is in the midst of its sixth mass extinction: Somewhere between 30 and 159 species disappear every day, thanks largely to humans, and more than 300 types of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have vanished since 1500.

That's good news, because scientists here reported yesterday that planets more than 1.6 times the mass of Earth are unlikely to be dense rocky worlds like ours — assumed to be the only plausible habitats for life.

There may be a million asteroids with masses far greater than ocean liners in Earth - approaching orbits, nearly all of which telescopes have yet to see.

Known as Kepler 452b, the world is estimated to be a bit on the hefty side, at five times the mass of Earth, but it is receiving just 10 % more heat and light than we do from its G - type star, just like our sun but 1.5 billion years older.

Its higher mass may give it a thicker atmosphere and more cloud cover than Earth has.

The date of the impact, estimated at slightly less than 66 million years ago, converges with the hypothesis that worldwide climate disruption in this period caused a mass extinction event in which 75 % of plant and animal species on Earth suddenly became extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs.

«There have been five major mass extinctions, since life originated on Earth more than 600 million years ago,» says Burgess, who works at the nexus of volcanic and tectonic processes.

The team's observations — published online today in Astronomy & Astrophysics — pin down 51 Pegasi b's mass (half that of Jupiter's) and the inclination of its orbit (9 ° with respect to Earth) more accurately than ever before.

Named K2 - 229b, the planet is almost 20 % larger than Earth but has a mass which is over two - and - a-half times greater - and reaches a dayside temperature of over 2000 °C (2330 Kelvin).

For more than 30 years, scientists have argued about a controversial hypothesis relating to periodic mass extinctions and impact craters — caused by comet and asteroid showers — on Earth.

Although it was compressed into a volume smaller than the Earth, the object's mass was more than six times as heavy as our sun.

The two planets orbit their star in 5 and 12 days, appear to be around 4 and 5 times the diameter of the Earth, and have respective masses of less than 6, and 28 times Earth.

Of the more than 2,600 microlensing events the OGLE team observed and analyzed, six were «ultrashort,» lasting less than half a day — suggesting they were caused by objects somewhere between one and 10 times the Earth's mass.

Of the more than 400 now known, many are large — 10 times the mass of Jupiter or more — and a precious few are small, just a few times Earth's mass.

The MASSIVE Survey was funded in 2014 by the National Science Foundation to weigh the stars, dark matter and central black holes of the 100 most massive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of galaxies.

For Alpha Centauri B there might be orbiting planets than are smaller than 8 Earth masses; for Proxima Centauri, there might be orbiting planets that are less than one - half of Earth's mass.

The effects linked to coronal holes are generally milder than those of coronal mass ejections, but when the outflow of solar particles is intense — can pose risks to satellites in Earth orbit.