Sentences with phrase «planetary object»

Dr Wightman said vaterite was often associated with outer space and had been detected in planetary objects in the Solar System and meteorites: «Vaterite is not very stable in the Earth's humid atmosphere as it often reverts to more common forms of calcium carbonate, such as calcite.

That's at least 100 times larger than the nanodiamonds that form when planetary objects collide, and it's far larger than diamonds that form by condensing from carbon vapor inside clouds of interplanetary gas and dust.

Since the K2 mission officially began in May, Kepler has observed more than 35,000 stars and collected data on several planetary objects within the solar system.

Using the known decay rates of various radioactive isotopes, he investigates the chronology of early processes on small planetary objects and studies the chemical and physical aspects of old and young crust - forming processes on Earth.

It is the first planetary object detected transiting a white dwarf.

A collision between two large planetary objects with unique isotopic compositions is thought to have created the Earth - Moon system.

A new study led by Western University's all - star cosmochemist Audrey Bouvier proves that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins — a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.

Based on the duo's calculation, they determined that a Mars - mass planetary object located approximately 60 AU from the sun, with an orbital tilt of eight degrees, would have enough gravitational influence to warp the orbital plane of distant KBOs by around 10 AU to either side.

For most of the candidates (85 %), the transit depths measured with Kepler are consistent with the depths measured with Spitzer as expected for planetary objects, while we find that the most discrepant measurements are due to the presence of unresolved stars that dilute the photometry.

A new simulation of how the moon formed suggests it took shape in the midst of a hot cloud of rotating rock and vapor, which (in theory) forms when big planetary objects smash into each other at high speeds and energies...

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland: «Planetary Object Geophysical Observer (POGO),» a secondary payload that is a hopper to be dropped on the asteroid surface by the Asteroid Retrieval Vehicle to measure elemental composition of asteroid regolith at multiple locations.

But in 2006, the International Astronomical Union, the governing organization responsible for naming planetary objects, reclassified Ceres as a dwarf planet because of its large size.

WASP - 39b likely had an interesting evolutionary history as it migrated in, taking an epic journey across its planetary system and perhaps obliterating planetary objects in its path.»

Well, almost encloses: Enceladus sprays geysers of water ice out into space, some of which settles back down to the moon's surface in the form of snow, making it the most reflective planetary object in the solar system.

First off, it treats your search terms and associated terms as planetary objects in a solar system, letting you choose which of the terms will be the centre around which the others rotate.

The Earth formed from an accumulation of gas, dust, and small planetary objects.

It is the first planetary object to be seen transiting a white dwarf.

This falloff is known as the «Kuiper cliff,» and its cause is unknown, though Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute has claimed that a large planetary object might be responsible.

With the discovery of water ice on other planetary objects, scientists are abuzz over the probability of the presence of — and the prospect of supporting — life beyond the boundaries of planet Earth.

An analysis of the data indicated the presence of 10 times the amount of brown dwarfs and very - low - mass planetary objects than would be expected in line with current theories on star formation in the nebula.

For one, NGJ czar Kieron Gillen has a piece called «Planetary Objects In The Rear View Mirror» about how interest in Halo grew during the game's construction, positing: «There was a time no one outside of Bungie cared about Halo.

The biologic evolutionary episodes of cellular developments is yes; designed from the atomized cosmologies wherever plausibly ordained upon any planetary object of the celestial orders of cosmological revelations.

Releasing physical generalities by the destruction of two opposing miniature universes via instrumental maneuverings to collide, by great speeds nearing light speed itself, shows our sciences toward a generalized understanding of minor attributes related to say our celestial colliding of two planetary objects.

Releasing physical generalities by the destruction of two opposing miniature universes via instrumentally maneuverings to collide, within great speeds nearing light speed itself, shows our sciences an understanding of minor attributes related to say our celestially colliding of two planetary objects.

«And my God, it had one of the most beautiful absorption features you ever saw on a planetary object.»

The researchers say this shows that clouds are probably ubiquitous in planetary objects.

A layer of iron and other elements deep underground is the evidence scientists have long been seeking to support the hypothesis that the moon was formed by a planetary object hitting the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, a new study led by Johns Hopkins University scientists argues.

The researchers in this experiment simulated the impact using liquids meant to approximate the turbulent mixing of materials that would have occurred when the planetary object struck when Earth was just about fully formed — a «proto - Earth,» as scientists call it.

It also moved, though slowly, and it was determined to be a planetary object outside the orbit of Saturn.

The finding of a 3.3 - day stellar rotation period for Star A that is estimated to be very similar to that of its recently discovered planetary companion moving in a very close «torch» orbit suggests that the planetary object may have tidally locked the star (Brogi et al, 2012; and Butler et al, 1997).

In this astronomy science project, you will model comets of different sizes and then use a hair dryer as a heat source (to mimic the Sun and other «warm» planetary objects) to determine how the size of a comet affects melting.

It is essentially a bottom - up process, wherein bits of dust build up into a larger, planetary object.

In SPH simulations, the colliding planetary objects are modeled by a vast multitude of discrete spherical volumes, in which thermodynamic and gravitational interactions are tracked as a function of time.

Miner Wars 2081 is a 6DOF action - survival space - shooter simulation - game set in the year 2081, 10 years after the destruction of all planetary objects in the Solar System.

On the timescale of decades, every planetary object has a mean temperature mainly given by the power of its star according to Stefan - Boltzmann's law combined with the greenhouse effect.