Sentences with phrase «outer orbit»

This means that it takes energy — from light, for instance — to pull them away from the nucleus and force them into outer orbits.

One of the most ubiquitous is the «octet rule,» which states that each atom in a molecule that is produced by a chemical reaction will have eight outer orbiting electrons.

In terms of strategic military use of L - points, «there are some interesting ideas (though from our side) about the utility of L - points as parking spots for reserve in - orbit spares and possibly for anti-satellites coming in from outer orbits, taking out GEOsats (geostationary satellites) and the like from unexpected angles,» Cheng said.

Given the low abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen, moreover, it is possible that the star is more likely to have gas giants in cold outer orbits.

The simulations show that gravitational interactions involving giants in outer orbits can eject smaller planets from the system, nudge them into their stars or send them crashing into each other.

After making a break for the county line known as the US$ 100 psychological level, the litecoin (LTC) rocket ship has officially blasted off into outer orbit, leaving the trappings of gravity behind.

Several other super-Earths have been identified in systems much like our solar system, with small planets closer to the star and giants in the outer orbits.

Two satellites sandwiching the F ring slightly above and to the left of the center of the image are the shepherd satellites Prometheus (inner orbit) and Pandora (outer orbit)(NASA / PIA12717)

One of these electrons, however, circles alone in an outer orbit, far from the nucleus.

Many observers assumed that such bottom feeders were mostly attracting papers of dubious scientific value, if not plagiarized or fraudulent reports, from institutions in academia's outer orbits.

This planetary formation theory presumes that gas giants always occur in a solar system's outer orbits.

When these expelled elements reached the outer orbits, the strength of the solar wind dropped off.

A Neptune - like gas giant may orbit Vega in an outer orbit, «pushed out» after its formation by a larger Jupiter - like planet in an inner orbit (more).

Within the 97 - AU - radius debris disk, the discovery team believes that planets less massive than Jupiter could orbit undetected in outer orbits.

Assuming that the infrared emissions are from from silicate grains at 0.25 micrometers, however, the disk would be located at an outer orbit of 120 ± 20 to 220 ± 10 AUs (Vogt et al, 2009).

Planet «c» or «2» - A residual drift in the radial velocity data over several years suggest the presence of an even larger planet in an outer orbit, at about 3.73 AUs from 47 UMa (between the average orbital distances of Jupiter and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System).

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star with with two other gas planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009 — more details below).

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of one «super-Earth» type planet in a tight orbit around this star with two other gas giant planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009).

Planetary candidate «c» appears to be a gas giant with 72 percent of Jupiter's mass (shown here with Europa) in an outer orbit.

In 1996, astronomers announced the discovery of a Jupiter - like planet around this Sun - like star (Butler and Marcy, 1996 — details below), and there were indications of an even larger planet in an outer orbit.

In 1996, astronomers announced the discovery of a Jupiter - like planet around this Sun - like star (Marcy and Butler, 1996 — details below), with indications of an even larger planet in an outer orbit.

Kepler 10b was detected using the transit method from more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft between May 2009 and early January 2010 and confirmed by radial velocity measurements, and there evidence for another planet (KOI 72.02) in an outer orbit with a period around 45.3 days (Kepler news release; images, animations, and discovery page; and Batalha et al, 2011).

That being said, watch out for some hostels that really are in the outer orbit of the city — generally speaking, anything that requires riding the bus just isn't worth it.

Tuttle contemporizes Richard Tuttle's fascination with the surface modesty of the world at hand, as well as its embedded path toward the outer orbits of origin, application, and comprehension.

Up by the coast of Lake Eerie, in the outer orbit of the city of Cleveland, Mentor, Ohio is a happening place.