Sentences with phrase «relatively small objects»

As the 1908 Tunguska event, which leveled trees across an area of Siberia some 30 km in diameter demonstrated, even relatively small objects (30 - 50 m diameter) are capable of inflicting enormous damage.

Bieringer said that satellites are now capable of providing clear images of relatively small objects on the ground, allowing researchers to employ sophisticated computer programs to scan these images and identify potential hotspots capable of harboring large populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

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.

Recent surveys of young star clusters indicate that relatively small objects — less than 13 times Jupiter's size, for instance — are common.

But the moving speck of light puts out more light than you would expect for such a relatively small object.

Not exact matches

For relatively small quantities of goods, 3 - D printing could be cheaper, since it eliminates the costs associated with the tooling, casting, and molds required to churn out most metal and plastic objects.

Although this doesn't promise to restore normal vision, «a remarkable amount of information can be conveyed in a relatively small number of pixels,» he says, that would allow people to perhaps identify simple objects and even recognize faces.

Although 3D printing is now possible using relatively small and low - cost machines, it is still a fairly slow process that involves several steps for each printed layer, including the need to reposition the object before adding the next layer of material.

The trouble is, the UFO design works better than our conventional designs only for small objects gliding relatively slowly.

An exception to this may have been if you used a lightweight and / or hollow object that did not sink at least halfway into the layer of flour — if this happened, a relatively smaller crater may have formed because the part of the object that hit the flour was smaller in diameter than the object's actual, widest diameter.

It's relatively easy to measure small movements of large objects but much more difficult when the moving parts are on the scale of nanometers, or billionths of a meter.

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).

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).

Astronomers label these objects brown dwarves as a way to describe their small size and relatively insignificant power output.

An OB association consists of many hot blue - giant stars, spectral classes O and B, and a relatively small number of other objects.

While the researchers suspected that the object is a dwarf planet, they couldn't definitively determine from the optical observations whether DeeDee is relatively small and bright, or big and dark.

The nuclei of these galaxies change brightness every few weeks, so we know that the objects in the center must be relatively small (about the size of a solar system).

The discovery team presumes that VP113 has an icy reflective surface like other relatively small, outer Solar System objects, as the dwarf planet is observed to have a pink tinge, which is hypothesized to result from chemical changes produced by the effect of radiation on frozen water, methane, and carbon dioxide.

A major motivation of the Bedroom Paintings was to shift the focus and scale of the attendant objects around a nude; these objects are relatively small in relation to the nude.

The show of 155 works on paper — accompanied by eight sculptures and a vitrine of small objects she has made or collected — illuminates a relatively private body of work that she describes as a sort of diary.

Most of his earlier works were on a relatively small scale — relief plaques, aluminum and bronze castings, many of which incorporated found objects.

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).