Sentences with phrase «not orbit»

It obviously does not orbit anything.
You can see that the Earth does not orbit the cross as that predicts a TSI variation that is not observed.
the real flight trajectory is not the orbit line, which is in your head and in your simplistic imagination, but rather does pendulum swings around this line, which lengthens or shortens the distance to the Sun, thus producing more or less RF....
Although satellites usually do not orbit directly in the Van Allen belts, these charged particles have a significant impact on the design of spacecraft and space instrumentation.
This technique is most sensitive to massive planets orbiting hundreds of millions of kilometres from their star and has also been used to discover a population of free - floating giant planets that do not orbit any star.
Only a few so - called hypervelocity stars are known to travel with velocities so high that they are unbound, meaning they will not orbit the galaxy, but instead will escape its gravity to wander intergalactic space.
It has remained largely a mystery, because conventional balloons and planes can not reach this height, and satellites can not orbit Earth at a low enough altitude to perform direct observations.
You can eliminate anything on the 70 % of the planet that's water, everything poleward of 57 ° latitude over which UARS does not orbit, and for all practical purposes the empty areas of the world, such as the Amazon, most of Australia, the Sahara, the Tibetan Plateau, much of Siberia, and even a lot of the western interior of the United States.
The first surprise is that the moon does not orbit above Earth's equator.
God does not orbit around us either.
The world is not flat, the sun does not orbit the earth, and there is no intelligent design.
Suborbital vehicles don't orbit Earth.
Because by then, the science will be incontrovertible that for some, oh.mose.xuality is not a choice, and evolution will be as obvious as the earth is rotating (and the Sun doesn't orbit the earth).
You can't prove that dancing unicorns don't orbit Mars.
When I say the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, nobody chuckles and says, «Ummm Dave, the sun doesn't orbit the earth.»
Naturally self - centered creatures, it's hard for preschoolers to grasp that there is a big world and it isn't orbiting around them.
Astronomers are puzzling over some space oddities: planets that don't orbit stars.
By measuring those rising and falling «light curves,» Kepler will give astronomers valuable information about planets orbiting other stars — including exoplanets in far - out orbits that other techniques can't detect — and even free - floating planets that don't orbit stars at all.
The velocities indicate that the stars don't orbit the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud in the same direction as their peers.
This object wasn't orbiting the sun, but paying us a visit from far outside our solar system.
In addition, these stars are not orbiting the galactic center inside the Milky Way's spiral arms like the Sun, but they originate from the spherical Galactic halo that surrounds the Milky Way's main disk, while briefly intersecting it in their long, elliptical orbits around the center.
Using precise positional data from the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and from optical telescopes, Felix Mirabel, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics of Argentina and French Atomic Energy Commission, and Irapuan Rodrigues, also of the French Atomic Energy Commission, calculated that Scorpius X-1 is not orbiting the Milky Way's center in step with most other stars, but instead follows an eccentric path far above and below the Galaxy's plane.
The instrument package doesn't orbit the Earth in a satellite: It's housed within a spacecraft 9 feet (2.7 meters) in diameter and 15.3 feet (4.7 meters) high that orbits the sun, trailing our home planet.
It doesn't orbit the sun's center — it orbits a spot in empty space between it and the sun called the barycenter.
The richest county in America that doesn't orbit the D.C. beltway, Douglas County leans Republican by a two - to - one margin.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit Earth in April 1961, followed into space by USA's astronaut Alan Shepard on May 5 (although he didn't orbit; that task was accomplished by John Glenn in February 1962).
One thing to remember is that the «equilibrium» temperature of the Earth is roughly 15,700,000 K. I arrived at this number using climate science physics, one simply calculates the «equilibrium» position of the planet Earth, and one finds that it should be in the center of the solar system, not orbiting it, and as we all know there is a star at the center with an average internal temperature of 15,700,000 K
Just like the Space Station is not orbiting the barycenter of the Earth and the Moon.
The Earth - Moon doesn't orbit the Earth - Moon - Sun barycenter exactly but it is not orbiting the barycenter of the solar sysem either; to some approximation the innermost planets and the sun must wobble around the barycenter together as they are similarly affected by the outermost planets which happen to be more massive as well as more distant and thus dominate in their effects on the barycenter — things should tend to get more complicated when the planets involved are at more similar distances.
Consider that the Moon is in orbit about the Earth (well, their barycenter), it is not orbiting the barycenter of the Earth - Moon - Sun system except by being part of the Earth - moon system.
And Earth is not orbiting the barycenter of the solar system.

Not exact matches

Most ICBMs don't enter Earth's orbit.
Meanwhile, SpaceDev, the rocket motor supplier for SpaceShipOne, is also working on a manned orbital vehicle, funding itself not only through rocket motor sales but through contracts with NASA — which might eventually be willing to pay big bucks to a private company to get government astronauts into orbit.
He also wants to be the man who designs a vehicle capable of not just brushing the edge of space, but actually going into orbit.
The Air Force has not disclosed many details about the space craft other than to say it's designed for «low Earth orbit altitudes where it can perform long duration space technology experimentation and testing.»
At least in early test flights, he continued: There is a «real good chance that that vehicle does not make it to orbit.
«This will not be the only flyover of Great Red Spot planned for Juno's [orbits], but it is the closest [Great Red Spot] flyover in the plans,» Candice Hansen, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, told Business Insider in an email.
When a small object orbits a big object in space, the less massive one doesn't travel in a perfect circle around the larger one.
And though Musk writes that the «destination is Mars orbit,» that probably doesn't mean putting the car in orbit around Mars, which commenters on Twitter have already pointed out would require specialized equipment on the car itself.
If everyone on Earth jumped at the same time, we wouldn't change the Earth's orbit in space, but we could cause a lot of damage on Earth.
Sorry, but more than 7 billion jumping people aren't a good way to shift the Earth's orbit, no matter how cool it would be.
Also known as a perigean full moon or perigee syzygy, a supermoon happens when the moon is full at its closest point in its not - quite - circular orbit around Earth.
And Shake Shack's (shak) shares have fallen back to earth, plummeting below $ 35 from over $ 90, as investors realized that the small burger chain's growth couldn't justify its Mars - orbit valuations.
Those game - changing things aren't limited to science experiments and orbiting tourism hubs.
Before I go on, let me make it clear: If you're buying your first record player, and budget is your primary concern, get the Orbit Basic; don't settle for less.
If you're getting serious about you audio setup, and want a showpiece that sounds and looks fantastic, you won't be disappointed with U-Turn's Orbit Special.
«Aha» moment: Stackpole — whose first love is telerobotics («any device you can use to see a faraway place without physically having to be there»)-- realized while at NASA that «you need a huge amount of money, if not a government, to get into orbit
This is why NASA does not permit astronauts to spend more than a year or so in orbit.
Candice Hansen, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, told Business Insider in an email that «this will not be the only flyover of the Great Red Spot planned» for Juno's orbits, «but it is the closest.»
The company lofted into orbit its first two prototype satellites for the Starlink service, which won't be operational until the mid-2020s.
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