Sentences with phrase «orbit around it for»

Rosetta is currently about 100 km (62 mi) from Churyumov — Gerasimenko and will remain in orbit around it for over a year until the comet swings back toward Jupiter.

Not exact matches

The platform would orbit 200 miles above Earth, offering six guests 384 sunrises and sunsets as they race around the planet for 12 days at incredibly high speeds.

The Dawn spacecraft is in such a stable orbit around the world, one Dawn mission scientist told the BBC, that it could stay there for a century or more and become «a perpetual satellite.»

SpaceX is set to launch Wednesday evening from Florida in its latest mission for NASA, launching a new planet - hunting satellite into orbit around the Earth.

Juno is expected to continue its highly elliptical orbit around Jupiter for months, swooping close every 53 days to map the planet's interior so scientists can learn more about how and where Jupiter formed.

But during its 37 orbits around Jupiter, Juno will be exposed to the equivalent of 100 million dental X-rays, said Bill McAlpine, radiation control manager for the mission.

NASA's Juno spacecraft capped a five - year journey to Jupiter late Monday with a do - or - die engine burn to sling itself into orbit, setting the stage for a 20 - month dance around the biggest planet in the solar system to learn how and where it formed.

Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.

A team of architects has finished the design for the world's longest slide, which will wrap around the massive ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture, originally built for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

For example, William Paley, already in 1802, in his treatise Natural Theology, pointed out that if the law of gravity had not been a so «called «inverse square law» then the earth and the other planets would not be able to remain in stable orbits around the sun.

Gravity from space (Einstein's relativity) operates on mass through space and matter interaction is a natural process like centrifugal force which made its appearance when a body is morning in circle Jean mass is the amount of matter that must be present before gravity becomes effective or felt, once this minimum amount of matter is reached or exceeded, gravity with mass interact with space - time to bring geodesics and gravity begin to control other bodies and then orbit around each other, another aspect of the twin effect of gravity and mass is the necessity to account for energy required to sustain gravitating mass and where does this energy originating from Einstein's field equation says from space but never refer to the origin of gravitation.

I'm never one to argue for repression or shaming as healthy sexuality, let alone someone who places one individual in the relationship (typically the man) as the sun around which our mutual sexuality should orbit.

Although the historicity of the whole gospel narrative is under serious scrutiny, and has been for a long time, the thrust of the story I believe, orbits around the themes the cross represents.

I want to hang out with other humanitarians or philosophers or existentialists or nihilists and enjoy life and get advice on how I could make enough money to go into space and orbit around the Earth for a little while.

The orbit of an electron around a nucleus conceived as a route of occasions would not significantly differ from that orbit conceived as the route of the continuous motion of the electron.2 Hence, Whitehead gave up his work on reformulating the equations of relativity theory, as well as any quest for ways in which his initial work would yield some confirmably different prediction from those of the equations of orthodox relativity theory.

Do you, for example, feel it is a cause to go around trying to convince the 120 or so million adult Americans who believe that the sun goes around (orbits) the earth that the opposite is true?

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli was aboard the orbiting lab for that call and was also around to chat with Francis, who considered a career in chemistry before becoming a priest.

For example, the official Soviet propaganda apparatus has made a very big thing; of the statement by cosmonaut Gherman S. Titov that he looked all around for God while orbiting the earth in his spacecraft, and — «I didn't find anyone out there.&raqFor example, the official Soviet propaganda apparatus has made a very big thing; of the statement by cosmonaut Gherman S. Titov that he looked all around for God while orbiting the earth in his spacecraft, and — «I didn't find anyone out there.&raqfor God while orbiting the earth in his spacecraft, and — «I didn't find anyone out there.»

For those who enjoy chemistry: Free radicals are an unpaired electron in orbit around the nucleus of an atom.

(At this point we pause while your correspondent first begs forgiveness, then soundly birches himself, for using calendar year divisions in an article about football, as though the earth's predictable orbit around the sun had anything to do with Arsenal's predictable orbit around the Premier League trophy.

Naturally self - centered creatures, it's hard for preschoolers to grasp that there is a big world and it isn't orbiting around them.

In the summer of 2000 I was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar magazine to write about the young gilded special advisers who were working for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown or orbiting around them, or who were close to Peter Mandelson.

In a paper published in 1692, Edmond Halley, later famed for charting the orbit of his eponymous comet, argued that Earth was mostly hollow, consisting of three concentric shells rotating around a core.

Now, to find out how the glaciers formed in the first place, scientists created models that simulated atmospheric circulation on the dwarf planet for the last 50,000 years (a mere 200 orbits around the sun for Pluto).

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.

But taking along just a little extra fuel can then gently lower a ballistically captured spacecraft into scientifically valuable, standard orbits of around 100 to 200 kilometers like those achieved with Hohmann transfers — or even onward to the Martian surface for a landing.

For four billion years, the rate of change of the Earth system (E) has been a complex function of astronomical (A) and geophysical (G) forces plus internal dynamics (I): Earth's orbit around the sun, gravitational interactions with other planets, the sun's heat output, colliding continents, volcanoes and evolution, among others.

Following a novel, looping path that gives it an unobstructed view, the orbiting TESS will scan the sky for planets around nearby bright stars.

For Hippke, a multigenerational mission ending in orbit around Alpha Centauri would be worth the wait, even if he would never see its returns.

Spacecraft orbiting other planets won't be any help this time around for the same reason, but another set of instruments will step up: solar observatories like SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, all of which are designed to stare straight at the sun's surface.

Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for the formation of black holes outside of our galaxy; either they are spinning more slowly than black holes in our own galaxy or they spin rapidly but are «tumbled around» with spins randomly oriented to their orbit.

That material would take up orbit around the black hole and give time for stars to form.

Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko's 6.6 - year orbit has taken it around the solar system countless times, but Rosetta joined it for its most recent close pass to the sun in August.

One possibility for Akatsuki's failure to enter orbit is that the engines didn't fire for long enough, and this could mean that it has enough fuel for operations next time around, says Eijiro Namura of JAXA's public affairs office.

After a decade of searching for planets orbiting stars like our sun, astronomers had found nothing but giant planets, most of them gas balls like Jupiter, around other stars.

The moon spends some time in two different environments; for most of its orbit around the Earth, the natural satellite is exposed to the solar wind and picks up ions from that.

In 2003, the first six student projects rode a Russian Eurockot into orbit, for about $ 30,000 a pop; early on, the biggest single expense was the ride, though in recent years, launch prices have stayed put around $ 100,000 for a 1U CubeSat.

Gravity is also responsible for keeping the earth and the other planets in their orbits around the sun, the moon in its orbit around the earth, for the tides, and for various other natural phenomena that we observe.

With planets orbiting M dwarfs quickly becoming the darlings in the search for life beyond our solar system, a new generation of observatories are poised to discover hundreds of worlds around these stars.

The B612 Foundation wants to put a telescope in orbit around the sun to look for asteroids that might hit Earth.

Two days before plunging into Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft took one last look around the planet it had orbited for more than 13 years.

We are just a species of ape living on a smallish planet orbiting an unremarkable star in one galaxy among billions in a universe that had been around for 13.8 billion years without us.

The overall illumination conditions could improve for another couple months, as comet 67P approaches perihelion on 13 August, the closest point in its orbit around the sun.

Whatever the reason, NASA's later grants to O'Neill, which continued till around 1980, according to Patrick McCray, a historian whose recent book includes chapters on O'Neill, tended to focus on his work on a mass propulsion system — potentially suitable for getting things up into orbit, but not explicitly space - colony - related.

The aerospace company Lockheed Martin late Thursday (Sept. 28) revealed new details for its Mars Base Camp plan, an architecture aimed at building a crewed space station in orbit around the Red Planet that would support long - term exploration at Mars by astronautson 1,000 - day missions.

For one thing, they explain changes seen in an unusual object discovered in 1974, thought to be a binary pulsar, in which two neutron stars (one of them a pulsar) orbit closely around one another.

In practice, this means observing a planet for at least one full orbit around the Sun.

Rockets today are not reusable, and that makes them so expensive — currently around $ 4,600 for each kilogram of payload lofted into low orbits — that the economics of putting solar modules in space just don't pencil out, even if the modules use solar - electric propulsion to lift themselves into their final orbit.

Simulations indicate that, given Rhea's size and distant orbit around Saturn, this moon could potentially hang on to a ring for millions of years or more before the planet's pull overcomes Rhea's hold.