Sentences with phrase «nearest the sun nearly»
Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that of the dozen or so single stars nearest the sun nearly half appear to have dark companions with a mass between one and 10 times the mass of Jupiter.
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«There is nearly as much energy in the far - red and near - infrared light that reaches Earth from the Sun as there is in visible light,» said Bryant.
A portion of the dwarf planet Pluto's highly eccentric orbit brings it nearer to the Sun than Neptune, which has a nearly circular orbit.
The Kuiper Belt — a doughnut - shaped region 30 — 50 AU from the Sun — contains about 70 % of all TNOs — those with nearly circular orbits near the plane of the ecliptic.
The sun emits nearly half of its total energy in the near infrared (NIR) spectrum.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it had opened an engineering analysis into nearly 600,000 Grand Cherokees and Durangos, from model years 2011 through 2013, because a potential short circuit could cause a fire near the sun visors of those vehicles.
Nearly half of the sun's energy is in the near infrared which penetrates water to a depth of between one and one hundred centimetres and together with the rest of the solar spectrum warms the ocean very efficiently down to 100 metres.