Sentences with phrase «of planetary orbit»

We measure an inclination between the projected planetary orbital axis and the projected stellar rotation axis of lambda = -26.9 + / - 4.6 deg, indicating a moderate inclination of the planetary orbit.

The supposed perfect circles, that is simplest conic sections, of planetary orbits, taken together, form a very complicated whole, painfully lacking in the apparent simplicity of any single circle.

Similar arguments dispose of the exactly circular view of planetary orbits.

«You can compare the first version of MOND to Kepler discovering the shape of planetary orbits,» says Mario Livio, the senior astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

Studies of planetary orbits have brought incredibly exciting results.

A bet the former had with other scientists on the nature of planetary orbits.

The degree of coplanarity and proximity of the planetary orbits imply energy dissipation near the end of planet formation.

Most lie beyond our Solar System's plane of planetary orbits, between 10,000 to 20,000 AUs outward from the Sun.

Right, and based on past observations (see Dalton, Maunder, Spoerer, etc. minima), the relationship of planetary orbits to periods of increased or decreased solar output, and the recent geometry of the various planets, and the solar barycenter, odds are pretty good that we're due for a decade or more period of reduced solar output.

I was arguing that whilst in the case of planetary orbits science won in the end, there could be circumstances where sound science was defeated by political considerations.

They were simply pessimists who couldn't imagine that anything as obviously complex as epicycles could be dramatically simplified with a simple model of planetary orbits.

We don't hate you Leif, we just think you are wrong regarding the effects of planetary orbits and masses on the Sun.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.»

This sort of work is difficult and beautiful in its own way, but it is not at all self - evident in the manner of a falling apple or an elliptical planetary orbit, and it is very sensitive to the same sorts of accidental contamination, deliberate fraud, and unconscious bias as the medical and social - scientific studies we have discussed.

Johannes Kepler: 1571 - 1630 German Astronomer (planetary orbits, optics, mathematical language of science The 3 laws of planetary motion.

And what can this mean except that, like those planetary orbits which seem to traverse our solar system without remaining within it, the curve of consciousness, pursuing its course of growing complexity, will break through the material framework of Time and Space to escape somewhere towards an ultra-center of unification and wholeness, where there will finally be assembled, and in detail, everything that is irreplaceable and incommunicable in the world.

N.T. Wright no more likened same - sex «marriage» advocates to Nazis and Communists than I am likening her to a planetary body in the following analogy: as the moon orbits the earth, so the mind of Ms. Moon orbits an empty space devoid of logic.

■ Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa (1401 -1464), Bishop of Brixon mathematician as well as astronomer who postulated non-circular planetary orbits, developed a mathematical theory of relative motion, and even used concave lenses to correct near - sightedness.

The history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation in the creation of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.

The nightmarish spectre of Antonio Conte's hauntingly terrifying face leering into the camera for an interview where He visibly battles with his urge to discuss the upcoming Champions League match with Barcelona rather than the humiliation of a Hull side without endangering any of his important players, was enough to prompt Mark to gaze heavenward, longing for the rumoured «Planet X» to finally roam into our orbit and take out earth in an apocalyptic planetary collision which the FA Cup would likely somehow survive.

Some of them, such as Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, additionally possess planetary rings — a collection of still smaller bodies of different sizes that also orbit a planet.

In a breakthrough study, an international team of scientists, including Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from the University of Leicester, has solved an age - old scientific riddle by discovering that planetary rings, such as those orbiting Saturn, have a universally similar particle distribution.

These rotating disks are believed to be the birthplaces of planetary moons, such as the Galilean moons that orbit Jupiter.

The International Astronomical Union defines «planet» as a celestial body that, within the Solar System that is in orbit around the Sun; has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit; or within another system, it is in orbit around a star or stellar remnants; has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and is above the minimum mass / size requirement for planetary status in the Solar System.

«During the past few years our group,» says David Jones, an astrophysicist at the IAC and another of the authors on the paper, «has discovered that the planetary nebulae with the biggest discrepancies in their abundances are usually associated with binary central stars which have been through a phase with a common envelope, that is to say the process of expansion of the more massive of the two stars has meant that the other star is orbiting within its outer atmosphere, and the viscosity has brought the stars very close to one another.

With private companies like Virgin Galactic promising to take tourists to Mars and the nonprofit Planetary Society hoping to send microbes to orbit the Mars moon Phobos (though as of this writing the probe is stuck in Earth's orbit), «these issues are becoming more and more obvious.

Enceladus, the pipsqueak of a world renowned for shooting huge watery plumes into space as it orbits Saturn, has a secret — a core that contradicts everything we thought we knew about the structure of planetary bodies.

Juno's visible - light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit around the largest planetary inhabitant of our solar system.

This clustering of orbital parameters of the most distant KBOs suggested a large, planetary size body shepherding their orbits.

«Although we were initially quite skeptical that this planet could exist, as we continued to investigate its orbit and what it would mean for the outer solar system, we become increasingly convinced that it is out there,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.

Solar sails that are tested in Earth's orbit must adjust their orientation with the sun regularly to build energy, says Bruce Betts of The Planetary Society in Pasadena, California, which hopes to launch its own sail, LightSail - 1, into orbit as early as next year, paving the way for an eventual interplanetary mission.

«Ultimately, we found that Jupiter is capable of ejecting the fifth giant planet while retaining a moon with the orbit of Callisto,» said Cloutier, who is also a graduate fellow at the Centre for Planetary Sciences at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.

Akatsuki was JAXA's bid to vindicate itself following the failure of its first planetary mission, the Mars probe Nozomi, launched in 1998 to enter the red planet's orbit the following year.

In between, general relativity has made its mark on the Global Positioning System, while explaining anomalous planetary orbits and the whirling death dances of the remnants of giant stars.

He replaced the circular orbits with elliptical ones — an innovation now known as Kepler's First Law of Planetary Motion.

Most of the attention in exoplanet research has so far focused on the inner parts of planetary systems, roughly within a distance equivalent to the orbit of Jupiter, for the simple reason that that's all existing detection methods can see.

Or perhaps the moon merged with another space rock that escaped Venus» orbit, says planetary scientist Raluca Rufu of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

The situation, says former LHCb spokesperson and University of Oxford physicist Guy Wilkinson, is roughly analogous to a planetary system in which the light quark is akin to a planet orbiting a binary pair of massive stars.

About 1,300 active satellites wreathe the globe in a crowded nest of orbits, providing worldwide communications, GPS navigation, weather forecasting and planetary surveillance.

Planetary scientist H. Jay Melosh is of course correct that the Deep Impact probe will have a negligibly small effect on comet Tempel I's orbit [«Impact Geologist Waits for the Big One to Hit,» Discover Dialogue, July].

Other theories involve planetary collisions that knock worlds off course or simply a large mass of materiallike an asteroid that jumps aboard and, by its mass and impact, tilts the once - flat orbit.

Direct imaging of exoplanetary systems is a powerful technique that can reveal Jupiter - like planets in wide orbits, can enable detailed characterization of planetary atmospheres, and is a key step toward imaging Earth - like planets.

So this month's occurrence becomes a historical footnote, a sheer - enjoyment opportunity to watch the clockwork motion of the solar system and to see our nearest planetary neighbor speeding along in its orbit at the point where it comes closest to Earth.

While most of the activity they've seen has been linked to the more than 160 volcanoes previously identified by camera - laden probes either orbiting or whizzing past Jupiter, the telescopes have identified volcanism in one region that had never experienced it before, the team reports today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences in Reno, Nevada.

Simon Kattenhorn, a geologist previously at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Louise Prockter, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, made the finding after combing through pictures from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

Nearly every one of these exoplanets has been discovered in orbit around a mature star with a fully evolved planetary system.

Amalthea probably arose in Jupiter's youth as a solid body near its current orbit, says planetary formation theorist Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

The Cassini spacecraft swinging through orbits around Saturn and its satellites has been sending back extraordinary pictures of its own, particularly from the moon Enceladus, and if they are less famous among most of the public, they may be no less inspirational to planetary scientists.

And Vesta's overall spectral color, as returned by NASA's orbiting Dawn spacecraft, matches that of these Vesta meteorites, Dawn team members reported today at a planetary science meeting in Nantes, France.