Sentences with phrase «planet populations around»

Because K2 - 39b has a short orbital period, its existence makes it seem unlikely that tidal destruction is wholly responsible for the differences in planet populations around subgiant and main - sequence stars.

Not exact matches

As population pressures increase around the globe, and the pace of conversion from forests to farmland accelerates, current farming and grazing practices will only continue to intensify the cycle of poverty experienced by most farmers, especially in and around our planet's most sensitive and unique ecosystems.

Norman Myers, a marathon runner in his spare time, takes the reader several times around the planet to support his thesis with regional case studies, while considering how problems such as population, mass migrations and the massive extinction of species are related.

One indicator, the Living Planet Index, for example, compiles thousands of annual population surveys of vertebrates from around the world.

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.

«We are clearly probing a highly abundant population of low - mass planets, and can readily expect to find many more in the near future — even around the very closest stars to the Sun.»

Hubble now enters a phase of full science observations ranging from studying the population of Kuiper Belt objects at the fringe of our solar system to surveying the birth of planets around other stars.

So I started a small research project investigating what the Kepler planet population looked like around stars of different masses.

Preferred Hosts for Short - Period Exoplanets In an effort to learn more about how planets form around their host stars, a team of scientists has analyzed the population of Kepler - discovered exoplanet candidates, looking for trends in where they're found.

planet occurrence is anti-correlated with stellar mass, and that the population of planets extends closer in around lower mass stars.

As a side result of the study, we identify two distinct populations of planets: those with short periods (d), which are found in orbit only around metal - rich stars with [Fe / H] > ~ -0.07, and those on longer orbits (d), for which the metallicity bias is less marked.

By using 100 % of plants, PLANETARIANS are making meals wholesome, feeding a growing population and all around planet friendly.

Looking at the time man has walked this planet, computers and the web have been around an incredibly short time — lets say 30 years in the public domain, and already nearly 20 % of the world's population has access to it.

Nature, as a phenomenon, includes population, birds, planet, insects, fish, atmosphere, water, and everything you can see around.

Themes revolving around the planet or Mira range from alien to oppressive to mesmerising, while tracks relating to the human population of New Los Angeles adopt a more industrial feel.

And thus it would have meant the end of human civilization and essentially all modern mammalian — including human — life on essentially almost all the planet, since modern mammals can not survive with typical summertime afternoon heat indexes around 200 degrees F or have viable populations at even just 150 degrees F without suitable microenvironments to retreat into.)

Most climate change predictions, when they incorporate population growth at all, have been based on the long - standing assumption that the planet's burden of humans will peak around 2050, and then begin a slow decline.

DU weapons (sold to seventeen countries that are known and possibly others — why let poisoning the planet and its population get in the way of numerous millions of quick bucks) are equivalent to spreading the contents of a nuclear reactor around the globe.

Four billion people are vulnerable to the effects of climate change and 500 - 600 million people — around 10 % of the planet's human population — are at extreme risk.

Without the knowledge or consent of their populations, governments around the world colluded and collaborated on the organization and deployment of incredibly destructive climate «intervention» programs that are further fueling the catastrophic consequences of anthropogenic activity on planet Earth.