Sentences with phrase «small celestial body»

meteor An asteroid or other small celestial body from outer space that enters Earth's atmosphere.

Another investigator, Prof. Junichi Haruyama of Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, mentioned the significance of this research, saying, «A smaller celestial body like the Moon cools faster than a larger one like the Earth does.

Try this stumper on an astronomy - savvy friend: What is the smallest celestial body visible to the naked eye?

Natural satellites are smaller celestial bodies that orbit around larger celestial bodies.

Not exact matches

That level of fascination made sense in the days before telescopes could observe details in planetary atmospheres, before space probes had explored Mars and bulldozed into a comet, and before we understood the history of asteroid and comet collisions, linking celestial bodies large and small.

While the rest of mankind is concerned about lunar disturbances, Floyd and a small crew are in fact investigating the nature of an unknown object that appears to have been deliberately buried in the surface of the celestial body.

There it is shown that small - amplitude vacuum density waves generated by the motion of the supermassive objects located in the center of the Galaxy are constantly acting on the Sun and the Earth and are thereby producing a series of physical reactions within these celestial bodies.

Now if some such celestial body or bodies exerted a pull on the highly asymmetrical solid Earth «potato» that would cause a small change in angular momentum and hence a change in LOD.