Sentences with phrase «orbiting of the earth cause»

Questions: FIRST)-RRB- Does the moon's orbiting of the Earth cause tidal motion in the molten center of the earth that thereby generates heat?

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If everyone on Earth jumped at the same time, we wouldn't change the Earth's orbit in space, but we could cause a lot of damage on Earth.

«THE END OF DAYS is near» January 1213 the earth will wobble causing earthquakes, lava will spill all over the earth the oceans will rise changing the topography, the atmosphere will be consumed, our planet will die and orbit just like our mom, a gusted, dust, desolate planet.

Also, sun set and sun rise are predominantly caused by the rotation of the Earth around its own axis, and only in small part by its orbit around the sun.

c. Evolution is on equally solid ground as other scientific theories such as gravitational theory (gravity), heliocentric theory (earth orbits the sun), germ theory (disease is caused by germs), atomic theory (matter is composed of atoms).

Since neither the Earth's rotation around its axis, nor the direction of its axis, nor the Moon's orbit are perfectly regular, their combined effect on motion in the core is unstable and can cause fluctuations in the geodynamo.

The orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency, is currently out of contact with Earth because of its location, so observers will not be able to see any coronal mass ejections caused by this morning's flares until 10:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), Battams wrote on Twitter.

That parts - per - million sensitivity should allow Corot to detect the dips in a star's light caused by a transiting planet with a radius just twice that of Earth — and perhaps an even smaller one, provided its orbit is tighter than Mercury's, so that the planet completes three transits during the 150 - day viewing period.

The objects causing these low - frequency ripples — such as orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies — would be different from the higher frequency ripples, emitted by collisions of much smaller black holes, that have so far been detected on Earth.

Detecting the wobble caused by an Earth - size planet orbiting at a more temperate distance from its sun is out of the question for a ground - based telescope.

Even though many of the planets orbit their stars very closely and have high temperatures, which in turn causes their hydrogen - rich atmospheres to expand and a fraction of the gases to escape the planet over time, it's unlikely that the planets will lose enough of their atmosphere to become rocky bodies like Earth, the researchers report online today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In October, Xavier Dumusque at the Observatory of Geneva and colleagues described a slight wobble in Alpha Centauri B, caused by the tug of an Earth - mass planet orbiting every three days around that yellowish, sunlike star.

The most likely causes of ice ages are changes in Earth's orbit and orientation.

Gravitational effects of Jupiter's sunward jaunt acted like a snowplow, scientists believe, causing a pileup of material near where Earth's orbit is today.

You know, for instance around Earth, you can think of gravity as forming a kind of a well around Earth, which causes the things that pass near Earth, the moon I would say, which is orbiting on its path, to stay within the vicinity because it falls into that gravity well, metaphorically speaking; and in likewise the same way this astronaut that is fictitiously described by our good mathematics professor takes a journey through curved spacetime.

Zhao said this takes away the possibility of Jupiter - sized planets causing asteroids that might hit or change the orbits of smaller, Earth - like planets.

The researchers determined that natural influences on Earth's climate, such as those caused by variations in its orbit around the sun, could affect the strength of El Niño events.

Trailing Earth in an orbit around the sun, Kepler monitors the brightness of about 150,000 stars, looking for periodic dimming that might be caused by a planet passing in front of its star.

This will be the fourth time that a new moon will orbit between the sun and Earth to cause a solar eclipse in 2011, just one eclipse shy of the annual max

This will be the fourth time that a new moon will orbit between the sun and Earth to cause a solar eclipse in 2011, just one eclipse shy of the maximum for the number of solar eclipses in a given year.

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 0.05 AU with an orbital period of about eight Earth days, caused it to be tidally locked with Star C.

Beyond low Earth orbit, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Experiment (LADEE) will, among other things, attempt to discover the cause of a faint glow witnessed above the moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago.

This twisting and stretching of the local spacetime should cause the gryroscopes in Gravity Probe B to get out of alignment as it orbited the Earth.

«No sufficiently large asteroid currently exists in an Earth - crossing orbit; however, a comet of sufficient size to cause human extinction could impact the Earth, though the annual probability may be less than 10 − 8.

So while this is indeed a landmark discovery, and no doubt cause for great cheer, researchers are still looking for the perfect storm of an Earth - sized planet that orbits within the habitable zone of a star that is similar to our Sun.

As you make your merry way down to earth from orbit, a covenant mega ship conveniently decides to jump into hyperspace right above the city, this in turn causes a slip space rupture and knocks the whole squad of ODST's right off of corse.

It seems almost silly in some ways, and to some Dot Earth readers borderline irresponsible, to spend time focusing on the day when astronomers spot a rock the size of, say, a hockey rink — or if we're less lucky a city block — slinging around the Sun in an orbit and on a timetable that could cause it to smash into Earth.

For example, the ice age — interglacial cycles that we have been locked in for the past few million years seem to be triggered by subtle changes in the earth's orbit around the sun and in its axis of rotation (the Milankovitch cycles) that then cause ice sheets to slowly build up (or melt away)... which changes the albedo (reflectance) of the earth amplifying this effect.

The postulated and very likely cause of the ice ages are variations of the earths orbit around the sun, and variations of the inclination of the earth's axis in relation to this orbit, which cause variations of the sun's heating of different parts of the earth at different times of the year (mainly the northern hemisphere) over long periods of time (tens of thousands of years).

I saw of graph of the precession cycle once and it appeared to occasionally skip a beat — perhaps when eccentricity got near zero — this makes some intuitive sense at least... (cause of Obliquity cycle is less obvious than precession of axis; perhaps some contribution comes from the Earth - Moon orbit and Earth + Moon — Sun orbit not being in the same plane — although the Moon's orbit will «average» near the plane of the Earth - Sun orbit over a relatively short time, but there's lunar orbit eccentricity, etc,... residuals might build up...?

Consider the ice ages, the alleged cause in this case is changes in the earths orbit BUT the ice ages are characterized by significant changes in CO2 levels that would appear to be the direct driver (i.e.» forcing») of the consequent climate change.

for the last century - This is apparently caused by the Sun or Jupiter's changes in gravity and mag field effects on earth as relative orbit positions change) This then complies with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics — ie Entropy, whereas the GCMs fail to comply again.

Even in low Earth orbit within the magnetosphere, astronauts on the ISS receive a dose of radiation equivalent to about 5 — 10 chest X-rays per day, which causes an increased risk of cancer.

Eccentricity change is caused by the gravitational mass of gas giant Jupiter tugging on the earth's orbit.

7 Natural Processes that Change Climate Earth Motions Geographic changes in Earth's land and water bodies cause changes in climate Changes in the shape of Earth's orbit and the tilt of Earth's axis affect global climates.

A Serbian named Milutin Milankovich, writing in 1941, argued that ice ages and interglacials were instead caused by changes in the orbit of the Earth around the sun.

And the melting was caused by tiny wobbles in the Earth's orbit that changed the heat balance of the planet by only a fraction as much as our emissions of greenhouse gases are doing today.

Slow changes to the orbit of Earth around the sun (Milankovitch cycles) do cause climate change — over thousands of years.

It is the gravity of the earth (causing the constant acceleration of the moon and resulting in an orbit) combined with gravity of the moon that causes the tides which we can harness to produce work.

If you studied the effects on climate of mountains formation and the Miin your geology modules, you shoule be aware that the variations of CO2 during Earth's geological record were all caused by rapid temperature changes by means other than CO2 variations, such as cycles in the Earth's orbit or geological processes that created large mountain ranges.

Boiled down to simplest terms, they consist of a 100,000 - year cycle in the eccentricity of Earth's orbit, similar to the big 405,000 - year swing; a 41,000 - year cycle in the tilt of Earth's axis relative to its orbit around the Sun; and a 21,000 - year cycle caused by a wobble of the planet's axis.

The climate has changed many times in the geologic past due to natural causes — including volcanic activity, changes in the sun's intensity, fluctuations in Earth's orbit, and other factors — but none of these can account for the current rise in global temperatures.

``... aren't you saying the equivalent of a statement that the gravitation of Jupiter and the other planets perturbing Earth's orbit is sufficient to cause variation in Earth's length of day?»

OK, bear with me here because following the abrupt termination of the relative motion between me, a car and a tree several years ago I have problems visualizing these kinds of problems and often make mistakes, but aren't you saying the equivalent of a statement that the gravitation of Jupiter and the other planets perturbing Earth's orbit is sufficient to cause variation in Earth's length of day?

If the Earth's orbit was affected by a moon of comparable mass to the planet itself, then the orbit and thus the Solar forcing could cause some amount of chaos in the climate.

That climate cycle's timing is fairly well understood to be caused by changes in the orbit of the earth, though the mechanism behind the response has not been conclusively established.

There is now very strong evidence that the root cause of these cycles lies in periodic variations in the earth's rotation axis and orbit around the sun.

The timing of the cycles was apparently set by minor changes in sunlight caused by slow variations of the Earth's orbit.

The climatic seasons that we experience on Earth are caused by a combination of Earth's annual orbit around the sun and its tilted axis of rotation.

7 Movements of Earth in Space (Page 270) The climatic seasons that we experience on Earth are caused by a combination of Earth's annual orbit around the sun and its tilted axis of rotation.