Sentences with phrase «path around the sun»

A successful launch would instead likely end with the payload meandering indefinitely somewhere in the vicinity of Mars» path around the sun.

And that's all fine and well and good and the world will continue on its tedious path around the sun.

The pair used a computer simulation to create hypothetical orbital paths around the sun that would have intersected with Earth on 15 February.

A yearly meteor shower arises when particles shed by a comet spread into a long trail, drifting along the comet's entire orbital path around the sun.

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.

Earth follows a slightly oval path around the sun, closest in January and farthest in July.

When it safely reached its unusual orbit, trailing Earth in its path around the sun, astronomers, many of whom had staked 23 years of their careers on the project, breathed a sigh of relief.

It would be a different universe because, for example, bound orbits [like Earth's path around the sun] work only in three dimensions of space.

Gigantic coil magnets could be placed at strategic intervals on asteroids to bend and focus a particle beam in a circular path around the sun.

But the steady, gentle thrust of Dawn's ion engines allowed flight engineers to program a trajectory for the probe that gradually matched Vesta's path around the sun.

Over time, the gravitational yanks of passing stars jostled the orbits of the objects, leaving no hint of their formerly neat, flat paths around the sun.

Over time, the gravitational yanks of passing stars jostled the orbits of the outer Oort cloud objects, leaving no hint of their formerly neat, flat paths around the sun.

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.

Neptune was discovered in 1846 but, thanks to its extremely lengthy orbital path around the Sun, didn't return to the location it was discovered until 2011 — 165 years later.

Not exact matches

The sun's apparent path is defined by a ring around what appears to be a smog - shrouded Earth.

One by one, Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury are all tossed out of their orbits as Jupiter swings around our star on a path that takes it from the outer solar system to the sun's searing doorstep.

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.

Almost all the stars in the Milky Way's disk were thought to orbit in orderly, nearly circular paths around the galaxy's core, but now astronomers find that many of the sun's neighbors have strayed from this course.

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.

The official definition of a plutoid is a round celestial body in an orbit around the sun beyond Neptune's that has not cleared its orbital path of other bodies.

The object around the star 51 Pegasi appeared to be 150 times the size of Earth, yet had an orbit tighter than the path of Mercury around the sun.

The pulse also knocked the electron into a highly elliptical path around the nucleus, rather like a comet that orbits the Sun but spends most of its time far outside the Solar System.

Because of parallax due to Earth's motion around the sun, the path appears scalloped.

Because the asteroid's orbit closely resembles the path of the Earth around the sun, says Paul Chodas of JPL, the object may turn out to be a rocket booster discarded from an earlier space flight.

Along a 14 - state path, day will turn to night for around two minutes as the moon's shadow completely obscures the Sun.

However, the star's sibling seemed to follow the sun's path around the galaxy.

Comet 67P / Churyumov - GerasimenCourtesy ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDARosetta - a spacecraft launched over ten years ago by the European Space Agency (ESA)- finally reached its goal yesterday, aligning and syching itself up with the orbital path of a comet (67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko) speeding around the Sun.

Using video footage gathered from various sources and knowing the landing point of the meteor, scientists in Columbia have been able to recreate its path to Earth, including the boom - a-rang effect it had in orbiting around the sun.

The object loops around the sun on a highly elliptical path that takes more than 1,100 Earth years to complete; it's currently about 92 astronomical units (AU) from the sun but comes as close as 38 AU and gets as far away as 180 AU.

The lunar nodes are determined by the points where the moon's orbit crosses the «ecliptic» — the apparent path the sun makes around the earth.

But as it whirled past the sun and swung around on its return path beyond the outer reaches of the solar system, the solar radiation reacted with its nucleus and a...

You can soak up the sun on the gorgeous beach, go snorkelling in the crystal - clear waters, and take a stroll around the coastal path to find your own secluded cove or picnic spot.

To the Earth's orbit: The mechanism can be detected by looking at the true trajectory of the Earth's flight path: What escaped the present attention is that this path is not a straight elliptical line around the Sun, but the real trajectory is a WINDING SPIRAL, winding around the mean progressive path.