Sentences with phrase «several earth years»

Alternatively, the habitable zone orbits have also be calculated to lie between 1.80 to 3.5 AUs (Jones and Sleep, 2003)-- between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System — with an orbital period of two to several Earth years.

Not exact matches

At Titan, Cassini found prebiotic chemistry — which means the moon is essentially a frozen version of what the Earth was several billion years ago.

And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.

In a highly notable victory that potentially overshadowed being re-elected to the most powerful office on earth several seconds earlier, U.S. President Barack Obama gained serious respect on Nov. 6 when his simple three - word tweet, «Four more years,» became the most re-tweeted tweet ever.

When Lynas started down the path of building the largest rare - earths processing plant outside of China several years ago, the price of rare earths was at heady levels.

You have directly contradicted learned biblical scholars who have proclaimed an earth age of only several thousand years.

But despite their best attempts to reconcile their discoveries with the Bible, their findings kept pointing in the other direction: namely, the earth was several billion years old, not 6,000.

It is the 1st book of the Bible, Genesis, that gives us how long our Creator, Jehovah God, took in preparing the earth for human habitation (when it reached the proper point of preparation), a period of six «creative» days, with each «day» being several thousand years long.

About fifty million years ago, a brief moment in the long history of life on earth, geological evidence indicates, CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now.

Actually food for several years, since having salt water flood the earth would have caused the death of almost every plant that most of those animals could have eaten as well as damage the earth so the crops wouldn't have been able to come back for years.

I thought: He is «not now that strength which in old days moved heaven and earth,» when, for several years, he accompanied his old blind father to the synagogue and, for an hour, whispered in his ear every word of the prayers the old man did not know by heart, then going off to another service to fulfill his own duty to pray.

believe that all life present on earth, from human beings to bacteria, is the product of several billion years of mutation, recombination and selection.

The sumerians were using a primitive form of writing 10,000 years ago, which is several thousand years older than many who follow the BS of the bible say the earths age is.

Mastropaolo belongs to the subset of creationists known as Young Earth creationists, who believe that Earth and its inhabitants were created by God some several thousand years ago - an account of which is laid out in the book of Genesis, in the Bible's Old Testament.

Finally, several hundred thousand years ago, our direct human ancestors appeared and began to spread out over the face of the earth.

Just because radiocarbon dating has flaws does not mean the dozen other methods for dating objects are automatically bogus which is why the scientific community believes the 4.5 billion year age of the earth, it's because they did not use just a single method of testing to estimate that age, they used several different methods which all confirmed the same approximate age.

Several hundred years ago «scientific evidence» supported the idea that the earth was flat and that the earth was the center of the universe.

When Christians talk about this earth age we live in now (2nd)... it started from Genesis to Revelation (to bring forth Emmanuel, God with us, aka Jesus Christ), however the Foundation of the World (1st earth age) is older, much older than a mere 6 or several thousand years old.

Here's my top five faves from my own kitchen this year: 5) Chilled Brown Rice Asian Salad — I love this salad for several reasons: 1) It's incredibly simple, 2) the chilled aspect makes it surprising, and 3) it's a take on my favorite dish from The Cookery in Door County, my favorite place on Earth.

La Crosse Mayor Matt Harter and County Board member Jai Johnson issue a joint proclamation declaring April to «Earth Month» for both the City and County of La Crosse; winners of the «40 Years of Going Green Together» poster contest are presented their prizes; and the Earth Day flag is raised over the city in several locations.

Over the years, Janet has been an occasional commentator on NPR's «Living on Earth» and her work has appeared in several dozen publications.

It's located about 500 light - years from Earth and contains several hundred protostars, the oldest of which are about 1 million years old.

That massive group of stars, dubbed SXDF - NB1006 - 2, lies about 13.1 billion light - years from Earth and was the oldest known galaxy when it was discovered in 2012 (a record that has been toppled several times since).

Those adaptations could help this hardy lineage survive until Earth is engulfed by the sun in several billion years, researchers estimate (SN Online: 7/14/17).

Over the last few years, several research groups have shown that, here on Earth, ancient biosignatures can be preserved in impact glass.

Several large impact scars on the moon appear to be around 3.9 billion years old, suggesting that the Earth and other objects of the inner solar system were heavily pounded at that time.

Although Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, it apparently experienced a delayed spike of impacts several hundred million years later.

Brent spent several years as a post-doctoral scholar at MIT and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. researching the Earth's rocky mantle.

Studies of ocean sediments and lava flows show the Earth has undergone several hundred field reversals, with the most recent confirmed flip occurring about 780,000 years ago.

Following up on an idea of Greg Laughlin's, she believes that by observing it steadily for several years, she might detect not only an Earth but a Mercury and a Venus as well.

A team of British and American astronomers used data from several telescopes on the ground and in space — among them the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope — to study the atmosphere of the hot, bloated, Saturn - mass exoplanet WASP - 39b, about 700 light - years from Earth.

Coal, as any mining museum in Cape Breton will tell you (and there are several now), is the dark fruit of ancient garden beds, the carbonized remains of swampy jungles that covered much of the Earth 300 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period.

For example, the ice ages during the last several million years — and the warmer periods in between — appear to have been triggered by no more than a different seasonal and latitudinal distribution of the solar energy absorbed by the Earth, not by a change in output from the sun.

Scientists estimate that several dozen asteroids in the 20 - to -40-foot (6 - to -12-meter) size range fly by Earth at a distance even closer than the moon every year.

In Related News After a quiet four years, the sun became more active last year, hurling several flares of high - energy particles into space, some directed toward Earth.

Among the stunning shots taken this week were those of the Lagoon Nebula, about 3600 light years away from Earth; the 47 Tucanae cluster of several million ancient stars about 15,000 light years from Earth; and the face - on barred spiral galaxy NGC 6744 in the star - rich southern constellation of Pavo, about 30 million light years away.

Three million years ago, Earth was several degrees warmer than it is today — about the same global temperature that we may see by the year 2100.

But as Jim Austin reports, several years of incremental improvements have now made its technology competitive here on Earth.

The lakes are fed by geothermal heat that seeps up from the Earth's interior, melting away the bottom of the ice sheet at a rate of several dime - thicknesses per year and liberating water from the ice.

As the planet coalesced during the birth of the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago, the swirling disk of gas surrounding it included several moons about the size of Titan, Saturn's largest remaining satellite, which is about 50 % larger than Earth's moon.

Ancient rocks and mountain ranges show that the constant movement of Earth's crust has assembled and ripped apart supercontinents several times before, in a roughly half - billion - year cycle.

Earth orbits a middle - age star called the sun, which is about 4.5 billion years old and is expected to put out a consistent amount of energy for several billion years more.

«The variation of Mercury's calcium exosphere with the planet's position in its orbit has been known for several years from MESSENGER observations, but the proposal that the source of this variation is a meteor shower associated with a specific comet is novel,» added MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon, of the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York.

The three astronomers combined several images to amplify the faint loops and flares seen rising thousands of light - years from the plane of ngc 55, which lies some 5 million light - years from Earth.

Woodward is the director of USArray, a mostly mobile set of seismographs operated by the National Science Foundation that are moved in regions from west to east over a period of several years, collecting data on Earth's motion as it progresses.

The researchers created models of Earth's atmosphere over the next several billion years.

The closest globular cluster to Earth is still several thousand light - years away, making it difficult to find planets, particularly in a cluster's crowded core.

His results showed that around 1 billion years ago, Earth could have transitioned from a modern - looking field, having a «strong» magnetic field with two opposite poles in the north and south of the planet, to having a «weak» magnetic field that fluctuated wildly in terms of intensity and direction and originated from several poles.

Pat Druckenmiller, curator of Earth sciences at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, is leading a collaborative project with Denali National Park over the next several years to explore additional areas and make new discoveries.

«Scientists expect to calculate amount of fuel inside Earth by 2025: With three new detectors coming online in the next several years, scientists are confident they will collect enough geoneutrino data to measure Earth's fuel level.»