Sentences with phrase «relatively small mass»

Jupiter's gravity also diverted planet - making material away from Mars, resulting in the planet's relatively small mass.

If magnetic monopoles had relatively small masses, the particles would sap the strength of magnetars» magnetic fields.

Not exact matches

He blames the failure on Reno's relatively small size: We keep trying to start groups, but we can't keep a critical mass built up.»

By the group's calculation, the mass screenings incurred a high likelihood of invasive follow - up testing and anxiety while finding a relatively small number of cancers that would have been lethal if they were caught later.

As relatively small stars (those less than ten times the mass of our sun) near the end of their lives, they throw off their outer layers and become white dwarf stars, which are very dense.

But traditional methods that rely on measuring how far small masses are pulled by the gravitational force of larger masses nearby only provide relatively rough estimates of its value.

Because they are much smaller than other solar eruptions — like flares or coronal mass ejections — prominences had previously been thought to have a relatively minor effect on the sun's atmosphere, and therefore also on the solar wind.

But Omega Centauri is widely considered a star cluster, because its mass is relatively small and it has only about 10 million stars.

The stars may be relatively small and only reach around one - tenth the mass of our sun.

The relatively small distances make direct measurements of their masses possible.

Because some of the cancers were extremely small — some lesions were only one cell - layer thick — postdoctoral fellows Eniko Papp from Johns Hopkins and S. Intidhar Labidi - Galy from Dana Farber, together with Velculescu and co-author Ronny Drapkin, M.D., Ph.D., formerly of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and now at the University of Pennsylvania, developed a way to isolate the relatively few cancer cells from the larger mass of adjacent normal cells.

There are two different black hole scenarios proposed to explain these objects: (1) they contain very «big» black holes that could be more than a thousand times more massive than the Sun (Note 1), or (2) they are relatively small black holes, «little monsters» with masses no more than a hundred times that of the Sun, that shine at luminosities exceeding theoretical limits for standard accretion (called «supercritical (or super-Eddington) accretion,» Note 2).

They had to use masses of these shellfish — hundreds of thousands of shellfish — to dye a relatively small piece of cloth.

In comparison, the Higgs boson has a relatively modest mass of 125 gigaelectronvolts, much smaller than what the LHC was theoretically capable of producing.

On the other hand, the mass and short lifetime (dissipating with a 1,000 years) of these small particles indicate that the disk detected was created by a large and relatively recent collision that may have involved objects as big as the planet Pluto (up to 2,000 kilometers or around 1,200 miles in diameter).

So to get a really fast orbit, you need two relatively small objects, each with a relatively big mass — what scientists refer to as compact objects.

A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.

The latest research shows that the relatively small OTS44 has a disk containing more than 10 times the mass of Earth, and that it is actively accreting material.

Statistically, their size distribution shows that the smallest asteroids, although numerous, contribute relatively little to the total mass of all asteroids.

The embryonic galaxy is relatively small, at only 1 / 100th the mass of our Milky Way.

The results of a baseline bone mass density scan I had in 2007 were well above the mean — my doctor ordered it because she thought I would be at higher risk for osteoporosis since I am small - boned, relatively thin and Caucasian.

The actual boost to calorie burn is actually relatively small — about 7 calories per day per pound of lean muscle mass (this is a far cry from the often - cited 50 calories per pound muscle mass per day), but the long - term payoff can add up, especially when added to the calorie burn experienced during and post-exercise.

We know, as an organization that started with a handful of teachers and has become into a national movement, that a relatively small group of people advocating for change can grow to a critical mass.

(Within a typical atmosphere, as on Earth, heat transport by conduction and molecular mass diffusion are relatively insignificant for bulk transport (there is some role in smaller - scale processes involving particles in the air), except when the net radiative flux and convective flux are very very small (not a condition generally found on Earth).

Once I do some double checking, you should be able to «see» how the slow and relatively small changes in SST are amplified by the lower capacity land masses and the atmospheric effect, to produce larger temperature swings with the same energy.

Antarctic snow, by the way, is THICKER than Arctic snow, so I wonder how this might figure in, given the HUGE size of the Antarctica continental land mass, compared to the relatively small size of the Arctic ocean.

For example, relatively small increases in sea temperature (as little as 1 — 2 °C) can cause mass coral bleaching and mortality across hundreds of square kilometers of coral reef (high confidence).

So far, the initial effect is still relatively small for two reasons: (i) part of that effect has been canceled temporarily by increases in sulfate aerosol, and (ii) the warming has been delayed because it takes a long time for the vast mass of the ocean to heat up.

Tides follow an inverse cube law (to a first approximation for systems experiencing tides due to masses relatively far away compared to the system's size; for systems that are not small relative to the distance to the object producing the tidal acceleration, I think it's more complicated), and so the inner planets gain in importance relative to the outer planets, although mass is still important (and nonetheless, tides raised on the Sun by the planets are so tiny it's hard to imagine they could be of any such significance).

apple.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple released its much - hyped HomePod speaker to the masses last week, and the general consensus among early reviews is that it sounds superb for a relatively small device.