Sentences with phrase «small mass»

Most open clusters have small masses on the order of 50 solar masses.

But traditional methods that rely on measuring how far small masses are pulled by the gravitational force of larger masses nearby only provide relatively rough estimates of its value.

There is less gravity on the moon (smaller mass then earth).

Most seriously, she has a large mass in one lung and a second, smaller mass in her other lung, along with a grade 5 (out of 6) heart murmur.

A video showing the aftermath of a rockfall in South - Tyrol remembers us that even small mass movements can have disastrous — or even deadly — effects.

For low - mass eclipsing binary stars, the method of eclipse minimum timing allows astronomers to search for smaller masses than those feasible with radial velocity measurements.

However, Pluto's small mass allows hundreds of tons of atmospheric nitrogen to escape into space each hour.

The clients also desired a more traditional look with smaller massing along the street that would help mask the 3 stories and provide a house more in scale with the neighborhood.

There is also very small mass flux to the Earth associated with particles from the solar wind, but again, it has no measurable impact on Earth's surface temperature.

... Now they have finally gone and the asphalt playgrounds have been grassed over or sown with flowers like small mass graves.

Until then, it would appear that it is your assertion that the carbon dioxide filled bottle heated faster and become hotter than the air filled bottle because the carbon dioxide has a higher mass than does air, i.e., «Much smaller mass means they can hold much less heat, just as a smaller cup holds less boiling water.»

Much smaller mass means they can hold much less heat, just as a smaller cup holds less boiling water.

Part of the EXO - 200 underground detector used to search for a hypothesized radioactive decay that could reveal how neutrinos acquire their incredibly small mass.

We found that planets orbiting smaller mass stars tend to have longer habitable zone lifetimes.

I was struck by one suggestion in your look at resistance to «ugly» cosmological physics: that the surprisingly small mass...

The high transition temperature (relative to atomic gases) is due to the magnons small mass (near an electron) and greater achievable density.

The withdrawal from Canada of Suzuki and its SX4 models leaves the Mitsubishi Lancer as the only other small mass - market car to offer all - wheel drive (though it's not standard).

Since Wario's bike has a greater mass, it is more resistant to inertia (the object's ability to change direction) than the Clown Car, since it's smaller mass causes it to be less resistant to inertia than Wario's bike.

This releases energy due to the slightly smaller mass of the helium nucleus produced.

Between the phone's proportionately small mass, its premium materials, and the dual edge display, the Galaxy S6 edge + might be Samsung's most impressive hardware to date, and it stands as an example of what the company is capable of... though that design doesn't come without some compromise.

When the pancreatic islets, small masses of cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, are exposed to high levels of nutrients — as is the case among people who eat a lot — they become inflamed.

Now, KamLAND - Zen is embarking on a new incarnation of the experiment, using about twice as much xenon, which will reach down to even smaller masses, and even rarer decays.

Laser removal is an option for small masses.

If the electron neutrino has a very small mass, it may mean that the tau neutrino has a very large mass.

Bijou had two small masses on her chest area which were surgically removed.

They shared the same region of space, between Mars and Jupiter, and had a far smaller mass.

Jupiter's gravity also diverted planet - making material away from Mars, resulting in the planet's relatively small mass.

It really comes down to simple physics: a smaller mass allows you to adapt, change directions and surmount unforeseen obstacles (three things that you often need to do during the business's infancy).

Entropy, when acted upon by external forces, such as gravity, will allow smaller mass to coalesce into more complex and larger objects.

«I have a small mass In my frontal lobe,» Matt Chandler, lead pastor of The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas, wrote on his Twitter feed.»

The product does not require a straw or cup and compresses into a small mass when it is empty for low - cost disposal.

Arvind Mahankali took home the grand prize in the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling «knaidel,» a word for a small mass of leavened dough (matzo, anyone?)

These are probably neutrinos, ghostly particles that were discovered decades ago but only recently found to have a small mass.

In what's known as the seesaw mechanism, the bulky neutrino would act like a big kid on a seesaw, weighing down one end and lifting the lighter neutrinos to give them a smaller mass.

Until now, 100 yoctograms — or a tenth of a zeptogram — was the smallest mass the most sensitive sensor could detect.

Because light moves so fast, an atom at rest — even with a small mass — contains a great deal of energy.

Chiang also has an explanation for another discovery of Kepler's: superpuffs, a rare and equally problematic set of planets that have a smaller mass than super-Earths but appear huge, with a puffed - up atmosphere making up 20 % of their mass.

«Compared to the central galaxies, it is the smaller gravitational pull of the satellite galaxies produced by their smaller mass, that results in a more efficient loss of gas and hence, a slow - down in star formation activity with respect to the more massive central galaxies» said Chris Martin, a professor of astronomy at Caltech.

Early results indicate that a small fraction of the muon antineutrinos behave like electron antineutrinos after the 30 - metre flight, implying that neutrinos do have a small mass.

The small mass sampled is, however, an analytical challenge.

By dint of their small mass and extreme quality factors, nanostrings similar to those developed in the Kippenberg lab are expected to have an important impact on traditional sensing applications.

LIGO has previously spotted mergers of swirling black holes with masses tens of times that of the sun (SN Online: 9/27/17); the smaller masses of the orbiting duo pointed the finger at neutron stars.

It will also have a second effect: the small mass will begin to move relative to the expansion of the Universe as a whole.

Neutrinos with a small mass would be «hot» in the early Universe, moving at close to the speed of light.

The problem for the law of conservation of energy is what happens if the small mass is then released.

Germanium - 76 (Ge - 76) decays to become selenium - 76, which has a smaller mass.