Sentences with phrase «orbital period of the planet»

It will also point those telescopes at one patch of the sky for long periods of time, allowing it to observe the relatively long orbital periods of planets in the habitable zone.

Their orbits are not random but appear to be in a so - called chain of resonance, meaning that the orbital period of each planet is related to that of its neighbors by a ratio of small whole numbers.

Do the orbital periods of the six resonant objects relate to the orbital period of Planet Nine?

By studying the frequency of dips in the star's light and measuring by how much the light dimmed, the team was able to determine the size and orbital period of the planet.

The more common exoplanet search technique, measuring stellar gravitational wobbles, would require one to two decades and longer to identify the orbital periods of planets at the distances of Jupiter and Saturn.

Led by Lars A. Buchhave, from CfA, the study shows a connection between the orbital period of the planet and its size as it changes from a rocky planet to a gas giant.

Kepler discovered that the square of the orbital period of each planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit, or equivalently, that the ratio of these two values is constant for all planets in the Solar System.

In simple terms — meaning those that this author can understand — the law states that there's a progressive ratio between the orbital periods of planets in a given solar system.