Sentences with phrase «path around the planet»

The first step is to reach a tight, circular path around the planet.

Passing bodies that rotate in the same direction as their path around the planet are more easily broken up, and their fragments more efficiently sucked into orbit.

Not exact matches

Following a novel, looping path that gives it an unobstructed view, the orbiting TESS will scan the sky for planets around nearby bright stars.

The planets would loop around Fomalhaut on eccentric paths and confine small particles to remote orbits.

Due to gravitational effects in the solar system, such as the tug of other planets, Mercury's oval - shaped path around the sun slowly turns, or precesses.

In 1915, Einstein explained that gravity arises because massive bodies warp space and time, or spacetime, causing free - falling objects to follow curved paths such as the arc of a thrown ball or the elliptical orbit of a planet around its sun.

MAKING TRACKS Every spacecraft that has visited Jupiter has traced a different path past or around the giant planet.

This means that the planet moves in a nearly flattened ellipse, traveling a long path far from its star and then making a fast and furious slingshot around the star at its closest approach.

If the satellite's path is circular, the moon takes at least 12 days to loop around the dwarf planet, data suggest.

A massive object, such as the sun, would create a dent in spacetime, a gravitational well, causing any surrounding objects, such as the planets in our solar system, to follow a curved path around it.

Because Mercury rotates so slowly — once every 58 Earth days, compared to a Mercury year, a complete trip around the Sun, lasting only 88 Earth days — the part of the planet at dawn spends a disproportionately long time in the path of one of the solar system's primary populations of micrometeoroids.

It orbits around the star 70 Virginis in a highly eccentric, or oval, path quite unlike those of the familiar planets.

Juno will orbit perpendicular to the planet's equator instead of following the more traveled path around it, and will get a bird's - eye view of the giant auroras seething at the poles.

This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth - like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System.

Coasting among the stars, following our planet in its path around the Sun, the Webb telescope will be invisible to us on Earth, too far away to be seen with the naked eye.

This dip in brightness is often observed in patterns, indicating the planet's uniform path around the star.

Backroad Planet Howard and Jerry enjoy scouting off - the - beaten - path destinations around the world and engaging with their social media audience of 100K +, plus Howard is TBIN's founder and a lead administrator.

They thrive on the discovery of off - the - beaten - path places, both in America and around the planet...

chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.

The Cosmic Exploration chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.

We've got a spoken rule around the TreeHugger virtual office that we don't write «save the planet» as it's simplistic cliché, but breaking that rule somehow seems appropriate at this moment: According to a new report from the UNEP investing just 2 % of global GDP could both alleviate global poverty, set us solidly on the path away from fossil fuels, and cut our collective ecological footprint nearly in half.

At COP21 in December 2015, Kerry said, «The world has come together around an agreement that will empower us to chart a new path for our planet — a smart and responsible path, a sustainable path.

The planet's human headcount between 1990 and 2005 rose by around 80 million a year, so each year there were millions more potential victims, with more homes, farms and factories in the path of destruction.