Sentences with phrase «model of the solar system within»

Another part of his proposal is to build a scale model of the solar system within Manhattan, with a model of the sun in Battery Park, inner planets throughout downtown and midtown, and outer planets in the Bronx.

Not exact matches

The model implies that such a merger took place accidentally in the vicinity of our Solar System within less than a hundred million years before it was born.

Just one month before Voyager's arrival, a research team had published the first serious model laying out how a liquid ocean could exist within a planetary body in the chilly outskirts of the solar system.

Astronomical observations, however, now indicate that the Solar System has around 400 billion comets of a mile or two (two to three kilometers) in diameter, but the» «domestic model» of comet formation can account for a population of only about 6 billion» within Sol's Oort Cloud.

The computer models deal with the actual energy and matter flows within, and in and out of the system, and do not account for random geological or cosmological events, such as volcanic eruptions or asteroid impacts, solar disturbances, etc..

Using a «high - resolution electricity system planning model» of the DOE's two - year - old SunShot Initiative (meant to knock down the cost of solar electricity to market prices by 2020) alongside likely carbon - limitation policies, Kammen and company found that it's not unrealistic for solar to capture a third of the Western U.S. electricity market within 40 years, displacing currently more - attractive technologies like nuclear and natural gas.