Sentences with phrase «sizes of the planets»

The earthly 24 hour day is different say than a day on Mars due to different size of the planet etc.... The universe is not on the earth's 24 hour «day» so to speak.

To say I dislike Mark Hughes would be like describing the size of the planet Jupiter as being bigger than a dog.

This huge jet stream also extends about 70,000 km from north to south, more than five times the size of our planet.

But unlike a child's arsenal, these spitballs are roughly the size of a planet and can travel fast enough to shoot out of the galaxy.

As the size of the planets we looked for decreased, the number that we found increased: We found more planets with 3 times the mass of the Earth than planets with 10 times Earth's mass, more planets 10 times as massive than 100 times, and so on.

Measuring how much starlight is blocked can tell astronomers the size of the planet.

The researchers found that whether a polar cyclone forms depends on two parameters: the energy within a planet's atmosphere, or the total intensity of its thunderstorms; and the average size of its thunderstorms, relative to the size of the planet itself.

The team found that whether a cyclone develops depends on two parameters: the size of the planet relative to the size of an average thunderstorm on it, and how much storm - induced energy is in its atmosphere.

The study with Chandra and XMM Newton has revealed clues to the size of the planet's atmosphere.

«It's the only method currently where we can measure the size of the planets fairly reliably.»

Clumps the size of planets could then coalesce under their own gravity.

This private message from one person to another embedded in the code creates a dizzying sense of parallax in context of the scale of the botnet — a system that makes spam production literally the size of the planet.

Astronomical objects that produce this phenomenon include supernovae (exploding stars) and neutron stars (stars that have been crushed down to the size of planets).

As the size of the planet increases, the atmosphere's «metallicity» decreases.

Others are several times the size of our planet.

When Kepler was still operational (it broke earlier this year), it was capable of locating stars with orbiting planets, the size of those planets, and their orbiting distance.

Mars has a radius of about 2,107 miles (3,390 kilometers), which is about half the size of our planet.

Of the new planets, four are Earth - like planets, less than 2.5 times the size of our planet, and are within the habitable zone, the orbit area around a star where liquid water is possible, of their sun.

Kepler - 10c is located around 560 light - years from Earth, in the constellation Draco, and is 17 times the mass and double the size of our planet.

Imagine such a meteorite the size of a planet, and you are picturing a carbon planet.

Kepler measures the size of planets and their distance from stars using a technique known as transit photometry, in which the telescope watches for small decreases in the light visible from specific stars, indicating that a planet has passed in front.

The size of the planet can also be estimated by looking at how much less radiation Earth sees from the star when a planet passes in front of it, according to a statement from the University of Bern.

Factors such as the sizes of the planet and the star, continental distribution, ocean depth, the amount of water present, tectonic activity, variability of the surface temperature, atmospheric composition, the magnetic shield, speed of rotation, axial tilt, eccentricity of the orbit, the type and amount of radiation received, the age of the solar system, and the possibility of panspermia within the system are all considered.

[Updated at 5:45 p.m.: The new findings give the scientists a chance to study the demographics of multi-planet systems, the scientists said, highlighting a star system containing Kepler - 296f, a habitable - zone super-Earth roughly twice the size of our planet.

What would happen if the physical size of the planet was pushed to the maximum?

Once planets in these habitable zones are found the size of the planet is taken into account.

First, we can learn the size of a planet — the bigger the planet, the more light it will block, and the larger the «dip» in the brightness of the host star.

And since Galactus is portrayed as a giant the size of a planet in the comic books, I guess he fits under that category.

Remind them that the relative sizes of the planets and the distances between them should be correct.

That's not the end, however: in a double - gatefold page, she reveals a blue whale, and the sheer size of the planet's largest animal is awe - inspiringly clear in her stunning presentation.

Apparently he manages to dodge an electric fan the size of a planet or a giant fire extinguisher, but not a rolling Chain Chomp going after a giant bone.

Growing from the size of a mouse to the size of a planet is incredibly satisfying to me.

And you with a «brain the size of a planet» who has independently analysed the various records and shown that most adjustments have made no difference to the actual rise since the seventies.

Being personally unsatisfied with the idea of a Hall Monitor version of a deity, I prefer to believe that the size of our planet (and so its gravitational force and solar exposure area) the presence of liquid water, and the distance from the sun result in an atmosphere that self regulates to a specific temperature range.

So, it's force is neglible... but if two particles are entangled at a distance of 7 miles, the distance is irrelevant and as affecting one affects the other virtually concurrently, and while the force between two particles can barely be measured; an aggregation the size of a planet......

Assuming there is any way for human lawyers to compete with an artificial brain the size of a planet (much less one on every desktop), legal work will likely be different.

«Has got a brain the size of a planet, and a very nice manner to him.»

Not exact matches

While the Planet Labs staff ate pancakes that morning in February, two shoebox - size nine - pound pods made in the company's unconventional factory floated from the International Space Station toward a polar orbit of Earth.

One of the planets, a Neptune - sized planet orbiting a star about 470 light years away, is just 11 million years old.

While just 49 of Kepler's thousands of planet candidates are Earth - size and in a habitable zone, the discovery has rocked the scientific world: This could mean billions of such worlds exist in the Milky Way galaxy alone.

«Understanding how planets form is important if we're to understand the formation of the Earth, and ultimately, how we got here,» said Erik Petigura, co-author of the paper about the Neptune - sized planet, to the Guardian.

In February, for example, a different one revealed the existence of seven rocky, Earth - size planets circling a red dwarf star.

The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is about twice the size of Earth and has tumbled in the planet's atmosphere for at least 350 years.

The mission aims to identify planets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, using an array of telescopes to perform a two - year survey.

Weighing in about the size of a 747, the unmanned air vehicles could bring Internet access to everyone on the planet.

If these aliens came form a planet of similar size, chemical composition, and distance from its star it stands to reason that they could be very similar to us in many ways up to and including our penchant for religions.

So would you prefer this: an unknown source says something in the media produced by someone apparently living on this planet may have caused some strong feelings among some yet to be identified crowds of unknown sizes to be engaged in possibly some distrubances which may have occured in some distant land...

It was just by «random chance» that the sun is the perfect distance from the earth so we don't get baked or frozen, that the moon is the right distance and size so the tides don't flood us, that the earth rotates so we are evenly heated, that water - which is absent on other planets and vital to our life - is present here, that there is a balance of living things to keep each other in check.

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

Obviously you don't realize that an asteriod the size of just the Empire State Building that actually makes it to the surface of the earth at the average speed of most objects coming from the asteroid belt in our solar system would cause enough destruction and devastation on earth to wipe out most if not all of the planet.