Sentences with phrase «orbital distance from»

All three planets are assumed to have highly circular orbits at an orbital distance from HD 40307 that would be well within the orbit of Mercury in the Solar System.

The orbital distance from Zavijava where a planet currently would be «comfortable» for Earth - type carbon - based lifeforms with liquid water on the planetary surface in the so - called habitable zone is centered near 1.87 AU — between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System.

The magnitude of the shift in the starlight's wavelength — on the order of quadrillionths of a meter — together with the period of the wobble can be used to determine an exoplanet's mass and orbital distance from its star.

The orbital distance from Stars A and B where an Earth - type planet currently would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered near 1.8 AU — between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System.

The orbital distance from Gamma Pavonis where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 1.2 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

The orbital distance from Zeta Doradus where an Earth - type planet currently would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered near 1.2 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

In any case, a circumbinary orbital distance from CM Draconis Aab where an Earth - type planet would be comfortable with liquid water would be centered around 0.3 AU, with a «year» of 18 to 35 days.

This is the not - too - hot, not - too - cold orbital distance from a star where life has a chance.

Not exact matches

Astronomers have understood the relative spacing of the planets since 1619, when German mathematician Johannes Kepler published his third law of motion, which relates each body's orbital speed to its distance from the sun.

Their models showed that if you visited any star with a planet orbiting from the same distance as Earth down to one tenth that, there is about a 38 percent chance (and likely less) that you would run into a planet and moon system similar to Jupiter's four Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), with similar ratios of moon to planetary diameters and orbital to planetary radii.

Still, its sun is smaller and cooler than ours, and Gliese 667Cc's orbital distance means it probably receives around 90 percent of the energy we get from the sun.

A substellar companion at that distance would imply an orbital period of around a year, or it could be in a highly eccentric orbit with a much greater average distance from Proxima.

At that distance from the star, such a planet would have an orbital period of about 124 days, or around a third of an Earth year.

The distance from Vega where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 7.1 AU — between the orbital distances of Jupiter and Saturn in the Solar System.

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 0.036 AU from Star B — well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

Viewed from a planet at Earth's orbital distance around Alpha Centauri A, stellar companion B would provide more light than the full Moon does on Earth as its brightest night sky object, but the additional light at a distance greater than Saturn's orbital distance in the Solar System would not be significant for the growth of Earth - type life.

This chart shows, on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST - 1 with their orbital periods, distances from their star, radii and masses as compared to those of Earth.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.5 AU from around Iota Persei — around the orbital distance of Mars in the Solar System.

At that distance from the star, such a planet would have an orbital period of around 4.7 Earth years.

An Earth - type planet could have liquid water in a stable orbit centered around 1.18 AU from Star A — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

Planet «d» - On average, planetary candidate «d» lies about 2.5 AUs from ups And, just within the middle orbital distance of the Main Asteroid Belt of the Solar System.

In 2000, a team of astronomers (Nick N. Gorkavyi, Sara Heap, Leonid Ozernoy, Tanya A. Taidakova, and John Mather) announced that modelling of the asymmetric circumstellar disk infalling into Vega suggests that there may be a planet twice the mass of Jupiter at an orbital distance of about 50 to 60 AU from the star — up to one and a half times the «average» orbital distance of Pluto in the Solar System (N.N. Gorkavyi et al, 2000 and more discussion).

As an example, Mars orbits the Sun at a mean orbital distance of 1.52 AU and thus can be observed as close as ~ 0.5 AU from the Earth.

At that distance from the star, such a planet would have an orbital period of about 202 days — less than two thirds of an Earth year.

The rotation curve shows how orbital speeds in a galaxy depend on their distance from the galaxy's center.

Calculations by to Weigert and Holman (1997) indicated that the distance from the star where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 0.73 to 0.74 AU — somewhat beyond the orbital distance of Venus in the Solar System — with an orbital period under an Earth year using calculations based on Hart (1979).

It lies at an average orbital distance of about 0.83 AUs from ups And (between the average orbital distances of Venus and Earth in the Solar System).

Under red dwarf stars, plant - type life on land may not be possible because photosynthesis might not generate sufficient energy from infrared light to produce the oxygen needed to block dangerous ultraviolet light from such stars at the very close orbital distances needed for a planet to be warmed enough to have liquid water on its surface.

Calculations by to Weigert and Holman (1997) indicated that the distance from the star where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 1.25 AUs (1.2 to 1.3 AUs)-- about midway between the orbits of the Earth and Mars in the Solar System — with an orbital period of 1.34 years using calculations based on Hart (1979).

Planet «c» or «2» - A residual drift in the radial velocity data over several years suggest the presence of an even larger planet in an outer orbit, at about 3.73 AUs from 47 UMa (between the average orbital distances of Jupiter and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System).

Based on its estimated bolometric luminosity, the distance from HR 4523 A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 0.88 AU — between the orbital distance of Venus and Earth in the Solar System, with an orbital period about 330 days, or about 90 percent of an Earth year.

Moving outwards from host star, planet «c» has 72 percent of Jupiter's mass and an orbital period of 2.8 years (1,024 days) with an average orbital distance of 1.76 AUs and eccentricity around 0.28.

The distance from Star A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.56 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.15 AU from around 15 Sge — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

Assuming that the spectroscopic companion B does not preclude a stable inner planetary orbit, the distance from Star A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.457 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System.

The distance from Beta Comae Berenices where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water may be centered around 1.2 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System with an orbital period of 1.29 Earth Years.

At that distance from the star, such a planet would have an orbital period of almost 324 days — nearly an an Earth year.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.12 AU from around 37 Gem — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

The distance from Kappa Ceti where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.92 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Venus in the Solar System.

Today, the distance from Delta Eridani where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 1.7 AU — beyond the orbital distance of Mars in the Solar System.

Jon Lomberg, Gemini Observatory Larger chart image 15 Sge b's observed separation from its host star is currently 1.5 times greater than Saturn's orbital distance in the Solar System.

At that distance from Epsilon Indi and assuming that it has 0.77 Solar - mass, such a planet would have an orbital period of around 199 days (or a bit over half an Earth year).

The distance from the star where an Earth - type planet could have liquid water on its surface is centered around 0.611 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System.

According to calculations performed for the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, the distance from 41 Arae B where an Earth - type rocky planet may have liquid water on its surface has been estimated to be between 0.593 and 1.176 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Earth in the Solar System.

At that distance from Star A and assuming that it has 1.1 Solar - mass, such a planet would have an orbital period of just under 1.5 years.

At the planet's orbital distance of only 0.014 AU from its host star, however, the surface temperature has been estimated to be around 400 ° Fahrenheit (200 ° Celsius), which is way too hot for liquid water.

It also compares them with Earth, by providing their orbital periods, distances from their star, radii, masses, densities and surface gravity.

The distance from Chi1 Orionis A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered within 1 AU — around inside the orbital distance of Earth in the Solar System.

On the other hand, the distance from BD +04 123 where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.49 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Venus in the Solar System — where a planet probably would have an orbital period around 137 days or more than a third of an Earth year.

The distance from Star A where an Earth - type planet could have liquid water on its surface is centered around 1.35 AU — between Earth's and somewhat short of Mars» orbital distance of 1.5 AUs in the Solar System.