Sentences with phrase «small moons means»

The discovery of so many small moons means New Horizons could be in for a hairy ride.

Not exact matches

Then again, there are a small number of people who think the moon landings are faked, so it's hard to say exactly what that means.

If small craters have been erased by an impact half a moon away, that could mean some of the surface is older than it looks, potentially changing scientists» interpretations of the moon's history (SN: 6/11/16, p. 10).

Scientists had suspected for a decade that the moon had a smaller sea, based on geysers spurting near its southern pole, but a widespread ocean means more room for otherworldly microbes to thrive.

That means the moon's rocks have been picking up small amounts of oxygen from living things on Earth; the moon is «contaminated» with the waste products of plants, the researchers said.

LLR is lunar laser ranging, which means bouncing lasers off small mirrors on the moon, then detecting the returning photons.

The discovery of a small moon orbiting the third - largest dwarf planet means all the large objects orbiting beyond Neptune have satellites.

Wilson is a slight film, a small - scale character study of a man who's failed to see the meaning of life for many a moon and while Harrelson is brilliant in a role he could undoubtedly play in his sleep, the film around him just never clicks into a gear that would've made this tale something truly special.

10x thinking basically means that instead of setting small incremental goals, you shoot for the moon.