Sentences with phrase «slightly smaller mass»

Not exact matches

A draft angle means that the top opening of a product is ever so slightly smaller or larger than the bottom opening, allowing for quick removal from a manufacturing mold in mass production.

This illustration shows the average brown dwarf is much smaller than our sun and low mass stars and only slightly larger than the planet Jupiter.

The astronomers determined that this galaxy's rapid star formation was likely triggered by a close encounter with its slightly smaller companion, which already hosts about 35 billion solar masses of stars and is increasing its rate of starburst at the breakneck pace of 540 solar masses per year.

The results suggest that encounters with just a handful of protoplanets, around the moon's mass or slightly smaller, would have been enough to tilt the moon at the angle we see today (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature16137).

Small differences in the mass of these isotopes mean that they are processed at slightly different speeds in the body, leading to patterns which can show who eats who in the slope ecosystem.

The star probably has around 90 percent of Sol's mass, a slightly smaller diameter, and 68 percent of its luminosity.

That will give you a slightly higher protein intake, but it's a good «surrogate measure of lean mass plus a small safety buffer,» writes Alan Aragon.

I don't know how accurate 510 million km2 is for Earth's surface area; taking 4 * pi * 6371 ^ 2 km2 ~ = 510.064 million km2; but I don't know the formula for an ellipsoid (polar radius is slightly smaller than equatorial radius)(for what it's worth, 4 * pi * 6381 ^ 2 km2 ~ = 511.667 million km2, which gives a sense of why most of the mass of the atmosphere can be approximated as having the same horizontal area as at sea level (a 1 % increase in area is reached at a height of about 31.8 km)-RRB-.