Sentences with phrase «on planetary mass»

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The human mass is spiritually warmed and illumined by the iron grip of planetary compression; and the warming, whereby the rays of individual interaction expand, induces a further increase, in a kind of recoil, of the compression which was its cause... and so on, in a chain - reaction of increasing rapidity.

Such compensation for mass is commonly found on planetary bodies, including on Earth.

Alternately, the planet can accumulate mass slowly as bits of dust collide and become pebbles, which collide to become boulders, which collide to become asteroids, and so on, until a rocky planetary core develops.

Those measurements reveal that the B ring, which makes up 80 percent of the total ring mass, is about 15 billion billion kilograms, or 0.4 times that of Saturn's moon Mimas, planetary scientist Luciano Iess of Sapienza University of Rome said at the meeting on December 12.

HARPS is an instrument that measures the wobble caused by a planet's gravitational tug on its host star, so it can be used to estimate planetary mass.

This is the first known example of a gravitationally bound pair of planetary mass objects, and astronomers can't agree on a name for them.

The artist concepts show what the TRAPPIST - 1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about their diameters, masses and distances from the host star.

On January 16, 2002, a team of astronomers (including (Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, and Gregory W. Henry) announced the discovery of a planetary companion «b,» whose mass has been estimated at a minimum of 20 percent that of Jupiter (exoplanets.org; and Fischer et al, 2003, in pdf) with a similar diameter.

On March 5, 2015, a team of astronomers announced that numerical simulations constrain the size of planetary candidate Alpha Centauri Bb (with orbital period P = 3.24 days; and semi-major axis a = 0.042 AU) to less than 2.7 Earth - masses at an inclination of 45 to 53 degrees relative to Stars» AB orbital plane (Plavchan et al, 2015).

Based on astrometic as well as high - cadence radial velocity measurements, planetary candidate «c» appears to have around 14.0 +2.3 / -5.3 times the mass of Jupiter (McArthur et al, 2010).

μm) spectra, obtained on the 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith Telescope at McDonald Observatory with the Immersion Grating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS)(Park et al. 2014, SPIE, 9147, 1), for a variety of Galactic PDRs including regions of high mass star formation, reflection nebulae, and planetary nebulae.

This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST - 1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets» diameters, masses, and distances from the host star.

We aim at investigating correlations between the host star's mass and the presence of wide - orbit giant planets, and at providing new observational constraints on planetary formation models.

Because M - dwarfs are so small, with around a tenth of the mass of the Sun, their planetary systems are also on a much smaller scale than our Solar System.

(The ESA spacecraft arrived at Sol's hottest planet on March 11, 2006, where it is being used to investigate how Venus — although similar to Earth in size, mass, and composition — evolved over the past 4.6 billion years to have atmospheric and planetary surface characteristics that now appear very different from those on Earth.)

An analysis of the data indicated the presence of 10 times the amount of brown dwarfs and very - low - mass planetary objects than would be expected in line with current theories on star formation in the nebula.

«Our new masses result in a five to eight-fold improvement on the planetary density uncertainties, with precisions ranging from 5 % to 12 %.

On December 16, 2009, a team of astronomers (including David Charbonneau, Zachory K. Berta, Jonathan Irwin, Christopher J. Burke, Philip Nutzman, Lars A. Buchhave, Christophe Lovis, Xavier Bonfils, David W. Latham, Stéphane Udry, Ruth A. Murray - Clay, Matthew J. Holman, Emilio E. Falco, Joshua N. Winn, Didier Queloz, Francesco Pepe, Michel Mayor, Xavier Delfosse, and Thierry Forveille) announced the discovery of a planet «b» of 6.55 ± 0.98 Earth - masses in a tight inner orbit using the «transit method» of planetary detection using «a fleet of ground - based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards» as part of the MEarth Project (CfA news release).

On September 24, 2002, a team of astronomers (including William D. Cochran, Artie P. Hatzes, Michael Endl, Diane B. Paulson, Gordon A. H. Walker, Barbara McArthur, Bruce Campbell, and Stephenson Yang) at the Planetary Systems and their Formation Workshop announced the preliminary confirmation of a long - suspected planetary companion «A1» (or «b») with a minimum mass of 1.76 that of Jupiter (MacDonald Observatory's Gamma Cephei and press release; Tautenburg Observatory press release in German; DPS session summary; Walker et al, 1992; Lawton and Wright, 1989; and Campbell et al, 1988), with a similar Planetary Systems and their Formation Workshop announced the preliminary confirmation of a long - suspected planetary companion «A1» (or «b») with a minimum mass of 1.76 that of Jupiter (MacDonald Observatory's Gamma Cephei and press release; Tautenburg Observatory press release in German; DPS session summary; Walker et al, 1992; Lawton and Wright, 1989; and Campbell et al, 1988), with a similar planetary companion «A1» (or «b») with a minimum mass of 1.76 that of Jupiter (MacDonald Observatory's Gamma Cephei and press release; Tautenburg Observatory press release in German; DPS session summary; Walker et al, 1992; Lawton and Wright, 1989; and Campbell et al, 1988), with a similar diameter.

Based on the duo's calculation, they determined that a Mars - mass planetary object located approximately 60 AU from the sun, with an orbital tilt of eight degrees, would have enough gravitational influence to warp the orbital plane of distant KBOs by around 10 AU to either side.

Abstract: Based on more than four weeks of continuous high cadence photometric monitoring of several hundred members of the young cluster NGC 2264 with two space telescopes, NASA's Spitzer and the CNES CoRoT (Convection, Rotation, and planetary Transits), we provide high quality, multi-wavelength light curves for young stellar objects (YSOs) whose optical variability is dominated by short duration flux burs... ▽ More Based on more than four weeks of continuous high cadence photometric monitoring of several hundred members of the young cluster NGC 2264 with two space telescopes, NASA's Spitzer and the CNES CoRoT (Convection, Rotation, and planetary Transits), we provide high quality, multi-wavelength light curves for young stellar objects (YSOs) whose optical variability is dominated by short duration flux bursts, which we infer are due to enhanced mass accretion rates.

They examined how the orbital distances of their final sample are related to the planetary mass and / or the planetary radius, depending on which measurements are available.

This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST - 1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets» diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018.

The distinguishing premise is that the bulk part of a planetary GE depends on its atmospheric surface mass density.

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

The complexity of planetary science is mind boggling complex in the interaction to understand how motion and mass and gases interact just on the planetary level.

When President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology spread panic in August 2009 about the purported dangers of a swine flu epidemic breaking out later that year, Alex Newman wrote for The New American at that time: «The co-chair of Obama's advisory council that issued the report, John Holdren, actually co-authored a book titled Ecoscience calling for forced abortions, mass sterilization, and a «planetary regime» with the power to enforce the sick notions.

The global oceanic conveyer belt, is a unifying concept that connects the ocean's surface and thermohaline (deep mass) circulation regimes, transporting heat and salt on a planetary scale.

Re 51 Tom P — watched the video; and I agree that the sun does wobble around the center of mass of the solar system; the center of mass itself is not tending to wobble around the sun because conservation of momentum applies to the solar system as a whole (except of course for the forces applied to it by nearby stars, the rest of the galaxy, etc, but those are not varying so fast and so the center of mass should generally be moving along rather smoothly on the same timescale as planetary motions).