Sentences with phrase «revolving around its axis»

Vesta revolves around its axis once very five hours and 20 minutes (NASA news release; and Jonathan Amos, BBC News, July 22, 2011).

Just the other day i was thinking about how the world has different time zones because of the earth revolving around its axis.

Any course, lecture or workshops on any subject revolves around that axis.

Not exact matches

When you put a policy in place that serves one objective without considering the broader impact, you suffer from axis displacement disorder: That's when you believe the axis of the earth has shifted and now the world revolves around you.

The earth appears fixed and immovable, but in fact, it rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun.

Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.

Galileo's bombshell that the earth is not the axis around which the universe revolves but a mere satellite of the sun must have disturbed Catholic minds at that time and the Fathers of the Church must have seriously considered its effect on the good of souls, their prime duty.

Our hours and days derive from the time it takes the earth to revolve on its axis; our months from the time it takes the moon to revolve around the earth; and the year from the time of the revolution of the earth around the sun.

The Moon spins once on its axis in exactly the same amount of time that the Moon revolves around the Earth, or once every 29 days or so.

Since the moon spins on its axis at the same speed it revolves around Earth, what scientists call synchronous rotation, you'll always have a good view of home.

Over a period of months, as Earth spins on its axis and revolves around the sun, the Paris researchers monitor their oscillator, comparing it with the microwaves from a hydrogen maser (microwave laser), which shouldn't be affected by Earth's motion.

Because Earth's axis of rotation points very close to Polaris, all other stars in the Northern Hemisphere appear to revolve around it.

The cycle between an elliptical and circular orbit and a change in the tilt of Earth's axis combined to create periods in which our planet did not tilt very much as it revolved around the sun, thereby eliminating seasons and resulting in less climatic variability.

And by the way, everybody who's now getting ready to write to us to explain how the Earth revolves around the Sun and spins on its axis and that the sun is not actually out more, we know.

Consequently, I consider that the axis of future arguments and researches on this issue should mostly revolve around the following issues: the political interests and reasons behind the debate regarding the prohibition of Islamic outfits and whether the rights of women that follow the Islamic dress code are violated by the religion of Islam and their families or by the Western idea of «how a free woman should be».

It is not the condensed expression of the composition but the axis around which it revolves.

Jorinde Voigt's mixed media works on paper at David Nolan create a new logic for forms: microscopic and galactic, organic and plastic, each revolving around its own temporal axes.

With its two live canaries in spherical cages revolving around a central axis, the new work Circle Division Canary Mobile (Black) even seems to suggest that life itself follows the logic of an endlessly continuing division that both separates and brings into contact.

In Allora and Calzadilla's «Revolving Door,» a troupe of Rockettes - style dancers are lined up from wall to wall, leaving viewers stuck in their hold as they move around a central axis.

If someone has good references addressing the related changes in these two rates of flow (H2O and latent heat) in our dynamic atmosphere (round Earth rotating on a tilted axis while revolving around the sun — and having a surface that is 70 % H2O, with other areas land but «not dry») I would like to see them.