Sentences with phrase «same orbital distance»

Surface temperature on the Moon can reach over 120 C. Whereas on earth at same orbital distance has surface temperature can reach about 160 F or say 72 C.

Not exact matches

He did, but even if you don't know what that means, and simply put he found that a planet's orbital period and distance are related, very soon you can gaze through the new observatory here at the same stars and planets that Kepler observed 400 years ago.

Their models showed that if you visited any star with a planet orbiting from the same distance as Earth down to one tenth that, there is about a 38 percent chance (and likely less) that you would run into a planet and moon system similar to Jupiter's four Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), with similar ratios of moon to planetary diameters and orbital to planetary radii.

Sirius A and B form a close binary separated «on average» by only about 19.8 AUs of an orbital semi-major axis — which is about the same as the distance between Uranus and our Sun («Sol»).

Here we report another violation of the orbit - composition pattern: two planets orbiting the same star with orbital distances differing by only 10 %, and densities differing by a factor of 8.

We know from hot Jupiters that Jupiter - like planets can change their orbital distance over time, so there is no guarantee that the orbital distances we are observing now are the same as when the planet formed.