Sentences with phrase «planetary body in»

The S - B Law applies to a planetary body in space without an atmosphere and relies on the planet reaching a thermal equilibrium whereby the amount of energy reaching the planet from the local star is matched by energy leaving that planet to space.

The makers of Elite Dangerous, Frontier Developments, do not handcraft every planetary body in the game.

Not quite round, Vesta's diameter is roughly 330 miles (530 kilometers) across, making it the second largest planetary body in the Main Asteroid Belt after Ceres.

Based on its high metal content and excluding the effects of gravitational compression, Mercury is the densest major planetary body in the Solar System, with about 1.2 times the uncompressed density of the Earth which averages 4.4 gm / cm3 (Murchie et al, Scientific American, March 2011).

Tidal forces acting on Io are so pronounced that the satellite's interior is literaly molten, causing the moon to be the most volcanically active planetary body in the Solar System, sporting over 400 active volcanoes!

Outside of Earth, Titan is the only other planetary body in the solar system with actively flowing rivers, though they're fed by liquid methane instead of water.

Just one month before Voyager's arrival, a research team had published the first serious model laying out how a liquid ocean could exist within a planetary body in the chilly outskirts of the solar system.

N.T. Wright no more likened same - sex «marriage» advocates to Nazis and Communists than I am likening her to a planetary body in the following analogy: as the moon orbits the earth, so the mind of Ms. Moon orbits an empty space devoid of logic.

The new study helps scientists expand their knowledge of what might be possible on planetary bodies in our solar system, said Kelsi Singer, a postdoctoral researcher who studies icy worlds at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and was not involved with the new research.

Craters like this one are typically found on planetary bodies in the Solar System that don't have atmospheres and therefore no weather systems to erode them.

According to the science team, this star is 10,000 times dustier than our own solar system, likely due to a recent impact between planetary bodies in its inner regions.

And it is that which is probably causing the simultaneous warming that has been observed over recent years on many of the planetary bodies in the solar system.

Not exact matches

It's absolutely absurd to suggest that something that is inevitable in a three - body planetary system is in any way connected to a millennia - old book of fairy tales.

All that we (our bodies) are is as being an atomized cosmos of cellular formed mini universes living upon a planetary cosmology of atomized bi-products made by celestial stabilities created in sequential productivities of sedimentary allowances made from the very beginnings of cosmological creations sanctifications afforded breathes of the cosmic being our universe is found being within!

From the sons and the daughters of God's inside residencies of Celled selective singularities in sublime renditionings of personalized orders or the rather chaotic gathering points for celled creatures to so begin upon any celestial body of rightly orientated planetary motions is but a feat of rooted grand designs and indentured husbandries!

The ONLY REAL SOLUTION to the overcrowding of areas like Gaza that does not result in war or death occuring is the colonization of planetary bodies like the Moon and Mercury both of which have more than ample supplies of water to create habitats for humans.

From the sons and the daughters of God's inside residencies of Celled singularities in sublime renditionings of personalized orders or the rather chaotic gathering points for celled creatures to so begin upon any celestial body of planetary motions is but a feat of rooted grand designs and indentured husbandries!

The International Astronomical Union defines «planet» as a celestial body that, within the Solar System that is in orbit around the Sun; has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit; or within another system, it is in orbit around a star or stellar remnants; has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and is above the minimum mass / size requirement for planetary status in the Solar System.

Planetary scientists have previously invoked tectonics — the cracking of a body by forces in the crust — as a way of opening up planetary interiors and allowing resPlanetary scientists have previously invoked tectonics — the cracking of a body by forces in the crust — as a way of opening up planetary interiors and allowing resplanetary interiors and allowing resurfacing.

«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetarPlanetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetaryplanetary bodies.

But planetary bodies that formed in different parts of the solar system generally have different isotopic compositions, so different that the isotopic signatures serve as «fingerprints» for planets and meteorites from the same body.

The new findings are observational evidence supporting the idea that icy bodies are also present in other planetary systems, and have survived throughout the history of the star's evolution.

That level of fascination made sense in the days before telescopes could observe details in planetary atmospheres, before space probes had explored Mars and bulldozed into a comet, and before we understood the history of asteroid and comet collisions, linking celestial bodies large and small.

For the percolation theory of core formation to work, the vast majority of metal in the planetary body must make its way to the center.

This level of internal pressure can only be explained if the planetary parent body was a Mercury - to Mars - sized planetary «embryo,» depending on the layer in which the diamonds were formed.

The researchers also compared their results to a metallic melt network preserved in an anchondrite meteorite, a type of meteorite that came from a planetary body that differentiated into discernable layers.

In January, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two planetary scientists at the California Institute of Technology, speculated on the existence of a ninth planet based on an odd alignment of six distant icy bodies.

That causes our planetary companion to pop out from the synestia, leaving it in orbit around the body that will keep cooling until it resembles Earth.

They are, in a sense, planetary cannibals: Earth formed by swallowing thousands of smaller bodies that already had cores and were miniature planets in their own right.

Amalthea probably arose in Jupiter's youth as a solid body near its current orbit, says planetary formation theorist Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Together, the studies finger Phoebe as a likely relic from the distant swarm of frozen cometary bodies called the Kuiper Belt, says planetary scientist J. Brad Dalton of the SETI Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

ARM will demonstrate advanced, high - power, high - throughput solar electric propulsion; advanced autonomous high - speed proximity operations at a low - gravity planetary body; controlled touchdown and liftoff with a multi-ton mass from a low - gravity planetary body, astronaut spacewalk activities for sample selection, extraction, containment and return; and mission operations of integrated robotic and crewed vehicle stack — all key components of future in - space operations for human missions to Mars.

The orbits of exocomets on Beta Pictoris could also help scientists trace the presence and migration of larger, undetected bodies such as gas giant planets in the planetary system, says Russel White, an astronomer at Georgia State University in Atlanta who was not involved in the study.

The researchers are interested in studying the effects of haze particles on the atmospheric energy balance of other planetary bodies, such as Neptune's moon Triton and Saturn's moon Titan.

A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body.

Although one could conceive of a cloud of ice and vapor arising from geysers on a Pluto - like body much farther out from our sun, until planetary scientists weigh in on this hypothesis, we rate it conceivable but unlikely.

When asteroids or comets strike Venus, their effect is very different from the one such bodies produce on the Earth, Moon and Mars, says a planetary scientist in the US.

Planetary scientists have long known that Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, thanks to constant gravitational tugs from Jupiter and its other moons that churn Io's interior.

«These findings could challenge our current thinking on the physics occurring in the interiors of icy planetary bodies,» Goncharov said.

The approach to modeling planetary bodies used in this study is a promising tool to study these worlds if we can measure their shape and gravity field, according to Mikael Beuthe.

Because the interiors of icy planetary bodies might also be salty, due to interactions between the ice and the surrounding rocks or a liquid ocean, lead author Livia Eleonora Bove of the CNRS & Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France and the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne in Switzerland and the rest of the team studied the effects of salts on the formation of the ice X from ice VII.

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

Another planetary body, Saturn's largest moon Titan, also routinely comes up in discussions of extraterrestrial biology.

One holds that the impact occurred early in Earth's history; another posits that two later collisions in sequence were responsible'or else a planetary body much larger than Mars must have been involved.

He is a leading researcher in planetary cratering and in the physical properties of the smaller bodies of the solar system (asteroids, comets, planetary satellites, the planet Mercury).

The planetary bodies such as these asteroids that fall into and pollute this dying star — which, in its heyday, was three times heavier than our sun — also reveal that giant exoplanets probably still exist in this remote and withering system.

Gravitational microlensing works by a planetary body — or any body for that matter with significant mass, such as a brown dwarf or even a black hole — passing in front of a star.

If these rays from the dying star were to wash over a once - frozen moon or exoplanet, the planetary body's icy layer would melt into liquid: setting the stage for life to form in a flowing ocean.

Observations of the planets, satellites, and small bodies in the Solar system provide indispensable information about planet formation and evolution processes that remain unattainable for other planetary systems.

In fact, the researchers found that chondrules were most likely created by the collision of such moon - sized planetary embryos: These bodies smashed together with such violent force that they melted a fraction of their material, and shot a molten plume out into the solar nebula.