Sentences with phrase «several small moons»

For the most part, these planets have several small moons, all orbiting in the same direction as the planet spins.

The end result: one big moon alone in an orbital space once occupied by several smaller moons.

Not exact matches

But small planets and moons cool too quickly for a magnetic field to be maintained there by convection several billions of years after they form.

About 4,500 light - years away in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, the nebula is large enough to be visible through small telescopes; if it were bright enough in the visible spectrum it could be seen by the naked eye, occupying several times as much of the sky as the full moon.

M32 is a small companion galaxy of the great (full extent several times that of the full moon) spiral galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda.

Launched in 1997, the Cassini mission has been working since July 2004 to study the gas giant and its huge family of 62 moons and several smaller moonlets.

The Dog Food Project lists several brands and varieties of dry dog foods as low - carbohydrate dog foods: Artemis Fresh Mix Maximal; Canine Caviar Venison and Split Pea Adult Dinner; Champion Pet Foods Orijen Adult, Puppy, Large Breed Puppy, Senior, and 6 Fresh Fish; Diamond Taste of the Wild High Prarie and Wild Wetlands Surf and Turf; Fromm Grain Free Surf and Turf; Merrick Before Grain Buffalo, Chicken and Salmon; Timberwolf Wild and Natural; Solid Gold Barking at the Moon; Wellness Core Ocean, Reduced Fat and Original; Natura's Evo Reduced Fat, Large / Small Bites and Red Meat Large / Small Bites.

After the Nintendo Digital Event, Nintendo showed off a montage of several smaller games that are coming to the Nintendo eShop online marketplace, including «Shovel Knight,» «A.N.N.E.,» «6180 the Moon» and «Chariot.»

This is clearly evident in several sculptures in this exhibition, including Steel Cloud (for Po Chu Yi), a reference to the Tang Dynasty poet also known as Bai Juyi, or in Titanium Landscape, which features an architectural element resembling a Chinese moon gate, or in a recent Untitled (2013) sculpture in which a small gong is suspended that can be struck with a rubber mallet, delighting the viewer with its gentle and sonorous tone.

Leif Svalgaard (15:46:56): kadaka (15:18:47): My own assessment of the sequence of events is 1) fusion turn on heating the solar system disk 2) small dust / meteorites condense from the disk 3) they collect into larger bodies 4) protoearth and large body collide and both protoearth and that body anre completely shattered to pieces 5) the pieces reassemble into the Earth and the Moon several millions of years probably elapsed between each of these steps.