Sentences with phrase «orbit around the sun roughly»

According to the researchers» calculations, such a hypothetical planet would complete one orbit around the Sun roughly every 17,000 years and, at its farthest point from our central star, it would swing out more than 660 astronomical units, with one AU being the average distance between Earth and the Sun.

Not exact matches

We have no photos of it because its orbit around the sun is roughly 415 years.

It follows a roughly circular orbit that swings it once around the sun every 286 years.

«For HR 8799, the infrared excess was consistent with dust orbiting at around 80 astronomical units,» or roughly 80 times the distance from the Earth to the sun (7.4 billion miles, or 11.9 billion kilometers), Marois says.

The newly announced one, MOA -2009-BLG-266Lb, is estimated to be just over 10 times the mass of Earth and orbits at a distance of 3.2 AU around its parent star with roughly half the mass of the sun.

The most tantalizing of these sits at roughly the same distance from the central star as Earth orbits around the sun.

Roughly 3.7 billion years ago, Jupiter and Saturn began a gravitational dance in which the orbital periods of the titans lined up, and for every orbit around the Sun Jupiter made, Saturn made two.

There is a vague numerological connection between the orbit of Jupiter (roughly 10 years) around the sun and the length of an average solar cycle.