Sentences with phrase «more planetary satellites»

(There are probably also many more planetary satellites that have not yet been discovered.)

Not exact matches

«We look to apply benefits across our programs - missile defence, satellites, planetary probes, especially as we create more and more common products,» said Brian Kaplun, additive manufacturing manager at Lockheed Martin Space.

More recent images from the infrared WISE satellite, however, let planetary scientist Douglas Hamilton, of the University of

Planetary scientists are intrigued that Pluto, which is only 2,300 km across, has so many satellites - and of course there could be more even smaller, yet undiscovered.

Re # 173 (Dan Allan): Large - scale reasons for the chaos include planetary tilt (= seasons), a high rate of rotation (= major Coriolis effect), much more solar heat applied at the equator than at the poles, unevenly distributed land, air and water, a molten core resulting in tectonic activity including continental drift and volcanos, the occasional hammer from space, a really large satellite creating major tides in addition to minor ones from the sun, plus some stuff I'm probably forgetting.

While the planetary imbalance at TOA is too small to measure directly from satellite, instruments are far more stable than they are absolutely accurate with calibration stability < 0.3 Wm − 2 per decade (95 % confidence)(Loeb et al. 2009).