Sentences with phrase «other smaller moons»

«Once again, the Pluto system has surprised us,» said New Horizons Project Scientist Hal Weaver, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «Our predictions were nearly spot - on for the other small moons, but not for Kerberos,» added New Horizons co-investigator Mark Showalter, of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif..

The first close images of the other small moons — called Styx, Nix and Kerberos — are expected to be beamed back to Earth in the coming days and weeks.

Not exact matches

[1] Most of the collapsing mass collected in the centre, forming the Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed.»

Some customers swear by moon decks (similar to tarot cards), and others return for the small - batch charcoal bath salts made in New Mexico.

Saturn's moon Titan is the only moon in the solar system that has an atmosphere as thick as Earth's, consisting of more than 98 percent nitrogen, roughly 1.4 percent of methane, and smaller amounts of other gases.

If conditions are similar around other stars and planets, there should be trillions of moons in our galaxy, with a small but significant percentage of them suitable for life.

During spaceflights, and in future habitats on the Moon or Mars, humans are or will be exposed to a condition of «microgravity,» in other words to a gravitational field much smaller compared to that present on Earth.

Currently known as 2014 MU69, the object might, in fact, be two rocks orbiting each other — and those rocks may themselves host a small moon.

The intense geological activity is the result of heat produced by a gravitational tug - of - war between Jupiter's massive gravity and other smaller but precisely timed pulls from Europa, a neighboring moon to Io that orbits further from Jupiter.

The gravitational interactions created in the outer disk by this massive star apparently acted as a catalyst for the gathering of debris to form other smaller, more distant moons.

It also offers among others an answer to the long - standing question of where the energy that can support water in liquid form on the small, cryovulcanic moon far from the sun comes from.

The moon is a bonanza for scientists, Kring says, because it offers crucial insights for understanding the origins and evolution of Earth and other planets: how they formed from the accretion and differentiation of smaller bodies; how they were bombarded by impacts early in their histories; and even how some of them migrated in their orbits around the sun.

Moons orbiting other planets are either too small to fully cover the sun's face or are so large that they fully block any view of the corona.

On average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have shown.

It readily catches small fish, and also targets many other jellies, including the large moon jellyfish.

Saturn's much smaller moon, Enceladus, features a network of icy volcanoes spewing ammonia, formaldehyde, and other organic molecules.

Phobos orbits closer to a major planet than any other moon in the solar system, less than 6000 km (3728 miles) above the surface of Mars, and is also one of the smaller known moons in the solar system.

The pitch was to buy and install a small supercomputer, which he would name for the biggest donor, to speed up data processing on a search for moons in other solar systems.

Beyond the Sun, its eight planets, and their larger moons, the solar system is home to a myriad of other, smaller bodies, including dwarf planets, asteroids, trojans, centaurs, and comets, all the way down to interplanetary dust particles.

This strategy was designed to protect Enceladus and other potentially habitable moons from the (small) chance of Cassini colliding with the surface, spreading Earth microbes.

The reflectivity suggests that Kerberos is coated with water ice, similar to the other small Plutonian moons.

Earth and the other seven planets that circle the star we call the sun and smaller objects such as moons make up our solar system.

Astrobotic, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, has been selected by NASA to receive a Phase II SBIR award to develop a small lunar rover capable of carrying on small scale science and exploration on the Moon and other planetary surfaces.

Tim Spahr directs the Minor Planet Center, the global clearinghouse for all information about asteroids, comets and other relatively small bodies like moons.

Given such staffing for such a small school, the question once again arises as to why KIPP can't answer basic questions, such as how many of its students come from Moon and nearby schools, and how many come from other districts.

However, other exterior shots make the car seem like a mid-size sedan, possibly a smaller version of the successful Kia Optima with a moon roof.

If you're serious about e-books and other reading, however, the Nexus 10 and the smaller and cheaper Nexus 7 could be worth it, especially since one application, Moon + Reader Pro, gives you more features than anything I've encountered in the iOS world even though some apps, like MegaReader, come close.

I have had two novels published by a small independent publisher, as well as three poetry books by a separate independent poetry publisher, but it was my first novel, A Darker Moon, that prompted me to respond to your survey because, amongst other things, I consider it to be literary fiction (plus dark fiction and dark fantasy, plus psychological horror, plus mythic magic realism — it's very much cross-genre, but underlying it all is the literary fiction aspect of the book).

This alone would be sufficient reason to establish the reserve; more loggerheads nest here than anywhere else in Belize and the only other significant nesting site is a small area on Half Moon Caye.

The Small Hotel Krabi enjoys a beautiful fusion of modern architecture and ancient Thai design.Viewed from outside, the bright orange main building stands out and can not be missed.Located between Ao Nang and Nopparat Thara beaches (a mere 50m from the latter), the hotel is a perfect base to enjoy the bustling dining, shopping and nightlife of Ao Nang, and the tranquil Nopparat Thara Beach.It is also easy to join one the many day trips to Krabi islands, Railay Beach and the other attractions available in the region from here.The hotel may be small but it features no less than six types of rooms and suites: Studio Rooms, Pool Access Rooms, Mini Suites, Pool Access Mini Suites, Honeymoon Suites, and Moon Deck SSmall Hotel Krabi enjoys a beautiful fusion of modern architecture and ancient Thai design.Viewed from outside, the bright orange main building stands out and can not be missed.Located between Ao Nang and Nopparat Thara beaches (a mere 50m from the latter), the hotel is a perfect base to enjoy the bustling dining, shopping and nightlife of Ao Nang, and the tranquil Nopparat Thara Beach.It is also easy to join one the many day trips to Krabi islands, Railay Beach and the other attractions available in the region from here.The hotel may be small but it features no less than six types of rooms and suites: Studio Rooms, Pool Access Rooms, Mini Suites, Pool Access Mini Suites, Honeymoon Suites, and Moon Deck Ssmall but it features no less than six types of rooms and suites: Studio Rooms, Pool Access Rooms, Mini Suites, Pool Access Mini Suites, Honeymoon Suites, and Moon Deck Suite.

Moon jars began to emerge in Korea from the late 17th century: storage vessels of milky white porcelain, joined imperfectly at the centre (linking two hemispheres), they also carried other small distortions from drying and kiln processes — these «imperfections» converged with philosophies of nature and individuality.

Shown together for the first time as an entire group, these small - scale, abstract works nevertheless contain different, recognisable «footprints» — ranging from an L - shape, a W - shape and an oval, to a crescent moon, an equilateral triangle and a figure - eight, among others.

Objects in the flagship artistic project Mementos: Artists» Souvenirs, Artefacts, and other Curiosities include: a book kept by Josephine Meckseper from an ex-boyfriend and descendent of Victor Hugo; a bottle of sandy water collected by Kendell Geers from the meeting point of the Indian and Atlantic Ocean at full moon; and Kris Martin's small bell without a clapper, acquired as a child and the source of inspiration for his major work now installed at the Walker Art Centre.

And then four days later, I watched along with hundreds of millions of others around the world as Neil Armstrong took one small step to the surface of the moon and changed the history of the human race.

Earth and Moon start off by asking the other planets to borrow the humans for a while so that Earth can recover, but in the end realize that some planets are too hot, others too cold, some too small, some too gaseous — and Earth will have to keep the humans.

Place a moon - like solid object (no or infinitesimal amounts of liquids and gases) with a small internal radioactive - decay source of thermal energy in space isolated from all other matter.