Sentences with phrase «orbital distance of»

In the early 1990s, one study found that coplanarity between the orbital and equatorial planes of nearby binaries (within 100 parsecs or 326 ly) that are composed of Sol - type stars (F5 - K5 V) «exists» for binaries with orbital separations up to the average orbital distance of Pluto in the Solar System — roughly 40 times the Earth - Sun distance or «astronomical unit» (AU).

Accounting for the relatively greater infrared output of M - stars like Kapteyn's Star, the distance from Kapteyn's where an Earth - type planet would have liquid water on its surface is centered around only 0.158 AU — well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed a planet with a minimum of 32 (max 49) Earth - masses at an average orbital distance of 0.97 AU from host star Gl 229, with an orbital period around 471 days (UH news release; and Tuomi et al, 2014).

Early in 2002, S2 came very close to the black hole, coming within 17 light - hours or around three times the orbital distance of Pluto from the sun (or 39 AUs).

In their survey of planets within 0.5 to 10 AUs of their host star, the astronomers found that 17 +6 / -9 percent of observed stars had Jupiter - class planets (of 0.3 to 10 Jupiter masses), 52 +22 / -29 percent had Neptune - class planets (of 10 to 30 Earth - masses), and that 62 +35 / -37 percent had super-Earths of 5 to 10 Earth - masses, which is consistent with the conclusion that an average star in the Milky Way should have one or more planets within an orbital distance of 0.5 to 10 AUs, and that there may be some 10 billion Earth - sized planets in the galaxy (ESO press release; Anil Ananthaswamy, New Scientist, January 11, 2012; Jason Palmer, BBC News, January 11, 2012; and Cassan et al, 2012).

The distance from EV Lac where an Earth - type planet would have liquid water on its surface is centered around 0.165 AU — well within the orbital distance of Mercury's orbital distance in the Solar System.

The average orbital distance of planet «b» from this star is 0.080 AU and so it could have liquid water on its surface, although it moves arount its host star well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

Currently, the orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around Pollux may be centered around 5.7 AU — just outside the orbital distance of Jupiter in the Solar System.

On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed two super-Earths «b» and «c.» Planet b has around 4.4 (+3.7 / -2.4) Earth - masses and an average orbital distance of 0.080 (+0.014 / -0.004) AU from host star Gl 682.

It will sample Saturn's atmosphere before crossing the orbital distance of the outermost main ring.

With a torch orbit around its host star that takes only about 20 hours (84 percent of an Earth day) to complete, Kepler 10b has an average orbital distance of only 0.017 AU from its host star and so has a tidally locked, synchronous orbit.

Gliese 581 g has an orbital period of 36.6 days at an average orbital distance of 0.146 AUs.

According to one type of model calculations, the inner edge of CD - 44 11909's habitable zone should be located a quite close to the star, at an orbital distance of around 0.05 AU, while the outer edge is a a little farther out at around 0.09 AU (Tuomi et al, 2014), but another study found the HZ to range from 0.07 to 0.19 AU (Bonfils et al, 2013).

If you include infrared radiation, the orbit of an Earth - like planet with surface water would be centered beyond 0.4 AU — outside the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

The distance from Gamma Leporis A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water may be centered around 1.6 AU — just outside the orbital distance of Mars in the Solar System with an orbital period of 1.85 Earth Years.

The distance from star A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 0.70 AU — about the orbital distance of Venus in the Solar System, with an orbital period of about 221 days, or around six - tenths of an Earth year.

According to calculations performed for the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, the distance from Ross 128 where an Earth - type rocky planet may have liquid water on its surface has been estimated to be between 0.06 and 0.11 AU — well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

The distance from CD - 23 17699 where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around only 0.202 AU — within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

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.

The planet moves between 1.7 and 2.5 AUs in orbital distance around Errai A, with an average separation of around 1.8 AUs, which would be between the orbital distance of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 0.77 AU — somewhat farther than the orbital distance of Venus in the Solar System — with an orbital period under 273 days or more than two thirds of an Earth year.

Since a 2005 visit by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, the short - period comet has completed more than one complete orbit around the Sun and approached the inner Solar System as close as the orbital distance of Mars.

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.

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.

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.

It moves around Star A at an average distance of 0.35 AUs (a semi-major axis inside the orbital distance of Mercury) in an elliptical orbit (e = 0.21) that takes about 75.6 days to complete.

We also discuss how the stellar composition, or «metallicity,» can affect the orbital distance of the habitable zone.

According to new measurements (Staffan Soderhjelm, 1999) found in the new Sixth Catalog of Visual Orbits of Binary Stars, Stars A and B are separated by an «average distance» of about 48.5 AUs (semi-major axis of 3.8» with a HIPPARCOS distance estimate of 41.6 ly), or more than the average of orbital distance of Pluto in the Solar System.

It has a minimum mass of 1.6 +0.3 / -0.5 Jupiter - masses and an average orbital distance of 11.6 +2.1 / -2.9 AUs.

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.

Lastly, there may be an additional third planet «d,» which may have around 54 percent of Jupiter's mass and an average orbital distance of around 3 AUs with a period of around 6 years (2,172 + / - 158 and an eccentricity near 0.48.

Planet «b» has 7.5 Earth - masses at an average orbital distance of 0.08 with a period of only 9.5 days and an orbital eccentricity near 0.40.

Hence, planet b's average orbital distance of around 2.1 AUs places its orbit at around the outer edge of the habitable zone at around.

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.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 1.14 AU — somewhat outside the orbital distance of Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of about one and a quarter of an Earth year.

For perspective, Pluto orbits the sun at an average distance of 40 AU, with a maximum orbital distance of 49 AU.

Without accounting for infrared heating, the water - zone orbit would be centered within 0.07 AU — well within the orbital distance of Mercury.

Planet «b» completes an inner orbit around BD +26 2184 in 9.494 + / - 0.995 days at an average orbital distance of 0.0831 + / - 0.0011 AU.

A planet with at least 5.7 Earth - masses has been found in orbit around Star C of triple - star system MLO 4 at an orbital distance of only 0.05 AUs (more info and video).

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).

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).

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 their closest approach, Stars A and B are about two AUs farther apart than the average orbital distance of Saturn around the Sun, while their widest separation is still about six AUs farther the average orbital distance of Neptune.

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).

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 any case, the presence of planet b at its average orbital distance of 2.5 AU could have disrupted the development of an Earth - mass planet in the water zone.

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.

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.

To test this idea, Volk selected 12 of Kepler's systems with four or more planets within the orbital distance of Mercury, tweaked their orbits slightly, and simulated what happened next.

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.