Sentences with phrase «orbital path as»

Others were hurled inwards, with more than 4000 getting trapped on Jupiter's orbital path as «Trojan» asteroids.

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The group defined a plutoid as an object orbiting the sun at an average distance greater than Neptune's, massive enough to assume a nearly spherical shape (as planets do) but not massive enough to clear its orbital path of other bodies (as planets also do).

«The optical telescopes play an important role, as their observations can be used to improve our prediction of the orbital path, as well as provide data that helps us establish the rotation rate of an asteroid,» said Chodas.

The debris clouds, initially distributed along the orbital paths of the satellites, are spreading to enshroud the entire planet, joining the roughly 19,000 large chunks of orbiting space junk (as seen in this image) already tracked by the Department of Defense.

Generally, when a star dims, a planet has passed in front of it, and will again and again as it travels its orbital path.

In the coming weeks, TESS will conduct a set of engine burns as it travels on a series of phasing loops out toward the Moon's orbital path, culminating in a lunar flyby and gravitational assist that will place the spacecraft on a lunar transfer orbit that will be inclined 37 degrees from the Moon's orbital plain.

Now, Leif, the cause of the turbulent field or natural convection is the suitable flow of energy from the solar core against gravity towards the surface, and the laws of fluid dynamics under conditions in which the convective cell has rotational and orbital components of angular momentum as determined by the path of the sun the planets force it to follow.

As you read this article, 24 satellites in six orbital paths are circling the earth twice a day, continuously transmitting coded positional and time information to GPS receivers, which pick up the signals and use the coded information to calculate a position in an earth co ‑ ordinate system.