Sentences with phrase «of iceball»

Not exact matches

At first, when observations of the comet were sparse and its orbit wasn't well defined, they suggested that the cosmic iceball even had a small chance of striking Mars.

The finds lend support to a scenario of an ancient «iceball Mars» in which ice encased much of the planet.

With a brown dwarf within a parsec of our own system being a hopeful and still - possible scenario for a more - accessible long - term destination than the Alpha Centauri system, I'd say the idea and hope that there could be something even semi-habitable in close orbit around that brown dwarf is a lot more exciting than just rocks or iceballs.

Those worlds are low - density, substantially iceballs, lacking the metals that they'd need to generate a magnetic field of their own that could deflect the charged particles of the Jovian radiation belts.

If it wasn't for the warming effect of carbon dioxide, the Earth would've been a frozen iceball throughout much of its history.

«It simply impossible to have the entire surface of the earth covered with ice with solar radiation at today's levels, even starting with an iceball with no CO2.

John Barrow and Frank Tipler's Anthropic Cosmological Principle (1984) provides plenty of material SF readers / writers... including anthropic climate - sensitivities spanning the range from -100 °C (iceball Earth) to +200 °C (furnace Earth).

Things like assumptions about linearity (which means more or less, they make the mistake of assuming that all forcings and feedbacks operate at similar ratios and strengths when the planet is an iceball as they do when Earth hits a rare warm phase).

This insulating property of the atmosphere prevents the planet from turning into an iceball.

Well I won't bore you with the gory details; but iceball earth is a crazy construct of Trenberth's equally crazy cartoon of Earth's energy balance.