Sentences with phrase «reports about the planets»

Since many grade levels complete reports about the planets, I designed this planet research project award that you can present to your students after they have completed their planet projects.

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As Io passes behind Jupiter, its surface quickly cools from 127 K -LRB--- 146 °C) to about 105 K -LRB--- 168 °C), a sudden chill that's sufficient to cause about 80 % of the atmosphere to turn into frost, the researchers report online today in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.

The first phase of that plan kicked off around the beginning of 2013, as observers around the world began monitoring Comet ISON and sending reports to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., the main clearinghouse for information about comets and asteroids.

Astronomers estimate that wandering Jupiter - mass planets without a parent star are about a tenth as common as once believed, Ashley Yeager reported in «Giant solo planets are in limited supply» (SN: 8/19/17, p. 10).

It provides more details about previously reported cyclones clustered around the poles of both planets.

The far ultraviolet images revealed that the front edges of the shimmering auroral curtains, which can stretch 1000 kilometers tall on Saturn, raced across the planet's surface at more than 4 kilometers per second — about three times faster than the planet rotates, the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

But the most likely reason, researchers report in a paper accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is that these extrasolar planets would simply be ejected by the gravitational forces that result when their parent stars get jostled about inside tightly - packed star clusters — the same clusters in which most stars are thought to be formed.

In short order, McArthur and her colleagues reported a planet about 18 times the mass of Earth around 55 Cancri, a star with three other planets, and a team led by Nuno Santos of the University of Lisbon in Portugal discovered a roughly 14 - Earth - mass planet.

Over a simulated interval of 200 million years, the inner planet slowly migrated even farther inward to become a «warm Jupiter» orbiting its parent star at about the same distance Mercury does in our solar system, the researchers report online today in Science.

Analysis of the light from the 46 stars showed low lithium content, the team reports, whereas the 116 stars all had higher levels of lithium — with over half sporting about 10 times more than the planet - hosting stars.

A report in the journal Nature cites the discovery of a new planet, WASP - 18b, which challenges assumptions about tidal interactions — it's too close and orbiting too fast not to have collided with its star, according to current knowledge.

The planet is about 16 times as massive as Earth but just a little over twice as wide, making its density about 8 grams per cubic centimeter, Néstor Espinoza, an astrophysicist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, and colleagues report.

«Someday soon we hope to be talking about weather reports for alien worlds not much bigger than Earth, and to be making comparisons with our home planet.»

The GRAIL data also suggest that astronomers should not use measurements of the basins on the nearside of the moon to draw conclusions about the rate at which craters struck the planets of the inner solar system 4 billion years ago, the researchers report November 8 in Science.

But new measurements by Venus Express (artist's concept above), which has been orbiting the cloud - shrouded planet since 2006, reveal the current rotational period to be about 6.5 minutes slower, researchers report this month in Icarus.

When did human domination of the planet start, asks a new study that now reports a dramatic shift in one of the rules of nature about 6,000 years ago — connected to growing human populations and the rise of farming.

Called «NASA's Leadership and America's Future in Space,» the report said that studying the outer gas giant planets (such as Saturn) help scientists learn about their atmospheres and internal structure.

Here we report observations of the bright star HD 195689 (also known as KELT - 9), which reveal a close - in (orbital period of about 1.48 days) transiting giant planet, KELT - 9b.

Scientists have discovered a new planet near in size to Earth, and because of its resemblance and close proximity, it's «arguably the most important planet ever found outside the solar system,» the University of Maryland's Drake Deming wrote in a commentary supplementary to a scientific report about the discovery, USA Today reported Wednesday.

Just about every actor on the planet was reported as being on a shortlist, in talks, circling, or eyed for a...

Deadline reports that Summit Entertainment, hunting for it's next young adult smash after Twilight, is acquiring the movie rights for the novel about a young boy genius with the fate of the planet in his hands.

Reporting from the press room at this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam, I talked about three new films; The Cleaners, Western and I, Tonya, as well as the festival's overall theme, «The Humans of Planet IFFR».

According to the UN High - Level Panel report «every day, poverty condemns 1 out of 7 people on the planet to a struggle to survive;» The UN High - Level Panel reports notes that «continuing on current growth trends, about 5 % of people will be in extreme poverty by 2030, compared with 43.1 % in 1990 and a forecast 16.1 % in 2015» (2013:44).

A Little Human Planet report about how children around the world help adults with their different daily chores including water collection, farming, fishing, washing and repairing homes with mud.

Of course, we also report more pressing stories about conservation and climate change, paying attention to the severe outbreak of coral bleaching damaging our planet's reefs — and informing our readers about the harmful practice of big game hunting.

Decrying misconceptions about the cost of vacationing in Belize, the Lonely Planet report highlighted the country as a top destination to dive or snorkel «as though you're in the Caribbean,» perhaps somewhat confused about the fact that all the world - class sailing, fishing, scuba diving, and snorkeling that draws in so many tourists to Belize every year actually does occur in the Caribbean Sea.

One special highlight in the Lonely Planet report about about Belize was the quality and affordability of the street food scene, a key factor for travelers on a budget.

Via: «Village «researchers» help monitor storks and environment in Armenia,» ArmeniaNow More about birds: Try a New Green Activity: Go Bird Watching New Song Bird Discovered, With A Face You'll Never Forget Concerns Over Birds Could Shoot Down 540 MW Shetland Islands Wind Farm Cuckoo Added to List of Threatened Birds in UK One Third of US Birds Endangered, Threatened or in Decline, New Reports Shows Ivory Gull Wins Most Polluted Bird on the Planet Award The Case of the Vanishing Birds

Meanwhile, with fewer vacuous comments to read through Andrew can get on with reporting what the scientists are saying / publishing so that those of us who are following the science without a priori convictions on who is right or wrong can learn more about what is going on on this planet.

On San Diego's KUSI News, John Coleman, co-founder of the Weather Channel, reported, «Mankind is not destroying our planet» (Columbia Journalism Review published this piece about Mr. Coleman in February):

You're not supposed to give away spoilers about Christopher Nolan's «Interstellar,» such as the name of the movie star who plays «Dr. Mann,» a celebrated climate scientist and humanitarian who reports back to Earth that the alien planet he has discovered is quite warm.

They issue reports from prestigious science societies warning about a finite planet being run into the ground.

Without looking it up, was the scientific paper that inspired the NAS report all about shutting down the AMOC and abruptly cooling the planet, or was it about an abrupt warming event?

And as you will read about below, a shocking UN report that was recently leaked shows that the planet has actually not been warming for the past 15 years.

World on the edge: how to prevent environmental and economic collapse — Powerpoint slideshow and PDF showing that demand for natural resources is outstripping supply (Lester Brown) The steady - state economy — Powerpoint slideshow questioning why economic growth is seen as the solution to the world's economic problems instead of a cause The steady - state economy and economic degrowth — Powerpoint slideshow arguing for «ecological ecomomics» (Blake Alcott) Review of People and the Planet — Powerpoint slideshow summarising the report (Richard Vernon) Growthbusters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 — Powerpoint slideshows about sustainability that can be used singly or combined (Sandy Irvine)

Not only does the report clearly not do what it claims to do, and not only is this another instance of Big Insurance joining forces with Big Environment to whip up alarm (not to mention premiums) about environmental risks (Allianz join Munich Re, RMS and Catlin), but, by ranking countries in terms of energy — rather than CO2 — production, it also supports our suggestion that Environmentalism has less to do with saving the planet than it does with reining in human aspirations.

They come up with all kinds of hypothetical feedback mechanisms involving more natural aerosol emissions in response to global warming: Dimethylsulfide from marine phytoplankton (although a very intriguing possibility, this has never been confirmed to be a significant feedback mechanism, and there is ample evidence to the contrary, which is omitted from the report), biological aerosols (idem), carbonyl sulfide (idem), nitrous oxide (idem), and iodocompounds (idem), about which they write the following: «Iodocompounds — created by marine algae — function as cloud condensation nuclei, which help create new clouds that reflect more incoming solar radiation back to space and thereby cool the planet.»

In its first comprehensive report since winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, the IPCC is unequivocal about the influence of human activity, the progressive warming of the planet, the melting of the polar ice caps, and the rise in sea level.

Kathy DiLorenzo, Director of Court Reporting, was interviewed by Ari Kaplan about the creation of Planet Institute, the trends that influenced its creation, the goals of the program, and where the court reporting industry is headed, among otheReporting, was interviewed by Ari Kaplan about the creation of Planet Institute, the trends that influenced its creation, the goals of the program, and where the court reporting industry is headed, among othereporting industry is headed, among other topics.