Sentences with phrase «plane of the planets»

In order to witness a transit, the orbital plane of the planets must be at or near our line of vision, but not all solar systems have the same orientation.

But the real kicker for the researchers was the fact that their simulations also predicted that there would be objects in the Kuiper Belt on orbits inclined perpendicularly to the plane of the planets.

We see this disk as a dim glowing band, called the zodiacal light, running along the plane of the planets.

Previous studies had suggested that much of the zodiacal light came from the dust of colliding asteroids, but the only way this model could reproduce the great breadth of the zodiacal cloud above and below the plane of the planets was to have the dust come from the comets that orbit in the vicinity of Jupiter's orbit.

Those comets already range much farther from the plane of the planets than asteroids do, and Jupiter's gravitational effects would drive their dust even farther afield.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

The probability of a habitable zone planet around an M - dwarf being hit by a CME may depend on the plane of the planet's orbit.

Oddly enough, Oort Cloud objects were probably formed in a region of the proto - planetary disk that was located closer to the Sun than the Edgeworth - Kuiper Belt objects that persist in the orbital plane of the planets (ecliptic) to this day.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - meter telescope fitted with a CCD.

Its location is approximately 124 million miles (200 million kilometers) from Earth — the distance between Mars and Jupiter — though its outbound path is about 20 degrees above the plane of planets that orbit the Sun.