Sentences with phrase «much smaller moons»

Pluto is now known to have two much smaller moons, discovered in 2005 by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Saturn's much smaller moon, Enceladus, features a network of icy volcanoes spewing ammonia, formaldehyde, and other organic molecules.

Not exact matches

Become multiplanetary on the moon because it's much smaller than been a planet.

Down at Cape Canaveral small birds with feathers get almost as much attention as the moon rockets

Andy Slaughter would face a Tory majority of 14 % in the new Hammersmith & Fulham seat Gareth Thomas would face a Tory majority of 11 % in the new Harrow and Stanmore Joan Ryan would face a small Tory majority of just 3 % in the new Enfield seat Ruth Cadbury faces a 10 % Tory majority in Brentford & Chiswick Tulip Siddiq faces a 9 % Tory majority in Hampstead and Golders Green Alex Cunningham is only eligible for the nomination in Stockton West, with a 7 % Tory majority Chris Matheson doesn't actually face much change, but Chester would have a 1 % Tory majority on paper Jenny Chapman faces a notional Tory majority of 1 % in Darlington Madeleine Moon's Bridgend is merged with the Vale of Glamorgan to create a notionally Tory seat, but with a majority of only 3 % Alan Whitehead's Southampton Test would have a 4 % Tory majority on paper (Southampton Itchen would flip to Labour... but Whitehead doesn't have the right to go there under Labour rules) Melanie Orr would be eligible to seek selection in either Grimsby North & Barton or Grimsby South and Cleethorpes.

The moon, being much smaller than Earth cooled more quickly.

During spaceflights, and in future habitats on the Moon or Mars, humans are or will be exposed to a condition of «microgravity,» in other words to a gravitational field much smaller compared to that present on Earth.

Southwest Research Institute scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth - Moon system.

That's a region thousands of times larger than the full moon, but still much smaller than the one given by Fienga.

An impact has long been suspected for the birth of Charon, the largest Plutonian moon, but Canup ran impact simulations to show that Nix and Hydra, two much smaller satellites discovered in 2005, may be debris from the same collision.

Measuring some 50 to 150 kilometers across, the new moons are much smaller than Charon, the 1192 - km diameter satellite of Pluto discovered in 1978.

The exposure times used to create this image set — a tenth of a second — were too short for the camera to detect Pluto's four much smaller and fainter moons.

Because of the small separation in the system — the distance between Centauri b and its star is just 5 percent the distance of between Earth and the Sun — the same side of the planet faces Proxima Centauri at all times, much like the same side of the Moon faces Earth at all times.

About 4,500 light - years away in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, the nebula is large enough to be visible through small telescopes; if it were bright enough in the visible spectrum it could be seen by the naked eye, occupying several times as much of the sky as the full moon.

On average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have shown.

In addition to the known existence of water, a paper published today shows hydrogen peroxide is abundant across much of the surface of the smallest of the Galilean Moons.

A new paper authored by scientists from the Southwest Research Institute asserts that the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos were created in much the same way, albeit with the involvement of a much smaller aggressor.

«Exomoons are hard to detect because moons are typically much smaller than their host planets and thus typically don't affect the transit eclipse light changes, except if the moon is large as in the case of this system,» Edward Guinan, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Villanova University, told Gizmodo.

Sophisticated computer modeling indicates Mars» two small moons likely formed as the result of a relatively modest - size impactor, not a much larger body as previously theorized.

It's exciting to consider that this small planet - not much larger than Earth's moon - is active even today.»

Small and dry Mercury (as well as Earth's Moon) became frozen before much melting could occur, and so its surface may have no more than 350 different minerals.

While a large impact on Uranus when it was still surrounded by a protoplanetary disk would have eventually produced moons in retrograde orbit around the planet, two or more smaller collisions had a much higher probability of generating the moons with the orbital direction observed today (Europlanet press release; and Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy Blog, Discover, October 7, 2011).

Unlike Harvest Moon where you have to spend hours courting a lady, here it's a much smaller selection and you only really have established time with one and not nearly as much as you would think at that.

I have had two novels published by a small independent publisher, as well as three poetry books by a separate independent poetry publisher, but it was my first novel, A Darker Moon, that prompted me to respond to your survey because, amongst other things, I consider it to be literary fiction (plus dark fiction and dark fantasy, plus psychological horror, plus mythic magic realism — it's very much cross-genre, but underlying it all is the literary fiction aspect of the book).

Despite the moon being smaller, it is much closer to the earth so it exerts greater gravitational gradient over our oceans.

So temperature of lunar surface during day is the sun temperature if the sun diameter increased to Earth / Moon distance but was also emitting the same total energy as the current sun does at it's much smaller diameter.

It's exciting to consider that this small planet — not much larger than Earth's moon — is active even today.»

So that's why Juno's camera has a field of view about 130 times wider than Voyager, and thus why Eath seems so much smaller even though Voyager was a little farther away when it took its Earth - moon image.»