Sentences with phrase «relatively small moons»

There is no question who is leading this dance: The relatively small moons are no match for Jupiter's enormous girth.

Not exact matches

The ability to fuel up in space would enable relatively small rockets to send astronauts to the moon or beyond.

On average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have shown.

Tim Spahr directs the Minor Planet Center, the global clearinghouse for all information about asteroids, comets and other relatively small bodies like moons.

Sophisticated computer modeling indicates Mars» two small moons likely formed as the result of a relatively modest - size impactor, not a much larger body as previously theorized.

Enceladus is roughly the diameter of England — relatively runty for a moon and far too small to hold onto the primordial heat left over from its formation.»

The ambition here belies what had to be a relatively small budget, the production design pulling together an organic, lived - in feel reminiscent of Moon or Sunshine.

I am not happy with the JEV theory (although I can't really judge), because even tidal effects on Earth caused by a relatively large and close Moon only have small, superficial effects.

As it turns out the Moon is relatively small and actually stabilizes the rotation axis, which is considered a favorable condition for life on Earth.