Sentences with phrase «orbital decay on»
RSS pointed out a significant error in UAH's temperature analysis caused by a failure to accurately correct for the effects of orbital decay on observations across multiple satellites.
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On April 30, if all goes well, after running out of fuel to fight off orbital decay NASA's long - running MESSENGER spacecraft will end its mission to Mercury by crashing into the planet's surface at nearly 4 kilometers per second.
The different Q values also allow the planets to re-align their orbits with the spin of the star (so that the orbital plane is perpendicular to the star's spin axis) on a timescale shorter than the orbital period decay, thus explaining why there are many «aligned» hot Jupiters.
The ``... uneven spatial distribution, many missing data points, and a large number of non-climatic biases varying in time and space» all contribute inaccuracies to to the global temperature record — as do errors in orbital decay corrections, limb - corrections, diurnal corrections, and hot - target corrections, all of which rely on measurements (+ - inherent errors), in the satellite temperature records.
The orbital decay effect was discovered by Wentz around 1997 which induced a spurious cooling effect on one of our microwave satellite products (lower troposphere) but not the others.