Sentences with phrase «right number of planets»

The reason it doesn't matter to me is that if you start from scratch and do a scientific definition, the right number of planets is eight.

Not exact matches

How is it just and right to overpopulate our planet and create ever greater numbers of malnurished, uneducated people living in squalid conditions?

ne = the number of habitable planets around each star In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's «habitable zone» — a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface.

The standard approach of researching exoplanets, or planets that orbit distant stars, has entailed studying small numbers of objects to determine if they have the right gases in the appropriate quantities and ratios to indicate the existence of life.

If there are vast numbers of other universes, all with different properties, by pure odds at least one of them ought to have the right combination of conditions to bring forth stars, planets, and living things.

And given the number of potential planets that we now have good reason to think exist, even if the dice only come up the right way every one in 100 throws, that still leads to a very large number of intelligences scattered around, that are likely to be similar to us.»

For a planet to be amenable to life, a number of factors need to be «just right.»

Its main goal is to generate a base estimate, or census, of the number of such planets orbiting within habitable zones, where conditions are right for liquid water to exist.

As the search continues for Earth - size planets orbiting at just the right distance from their star, a region termed the habitable zone, the number of potentially life - supporting planets grows.

To that point, and at the top right corner of the chart, Méndez lists the number of known stellar systems according to the number of exoplanets they contain (e.g. we've discovered 46 star systems with four planets).

Lonely Planet recently named Singapore their number one county to visit in 2015, which in it of itself is fine, except for the fact that it's technically a city / state, right?

We searched out the cheapest guesthouse option mentioned in our Lonely Planet guide, Hospedaje San José, which — although perfectly adequate with a fantastic location right next to the local market — was bone - chillingly cold at night, despite the number of blankets provided.

The number of businesses committing 1 % of their sales to the environment in Jack's wake is a clear indication that the investment he made in doing the right thing has been multiplied by the inspiration that he has offered to others,» said Terry Kellogg, Executive Director, 1 % For The Planet (www.onepercentfortheplanet.org).

While I have not found good numbers for the IR albedo (of either planet), the data I've seen indicates that most of the IR energy is either reflected back into space or absorbed in the upper atmosphere (that's right - it does NOT heat the surface).

With the future of the planet being tied back in so many ways to man - made carbon emissions, getting those numbers right has become an essential task for scientists across the world.

Reading through the thread i recognized that you're only using the numbers from the K / T diagram to have the order of magnitude right for your Gedankenexperiment with the lone planet in space surrounded by two steel shells.