Sentences with phrase «smaller measured masses»

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Every religion in the world, past and present, stems from the same basic premise «it's probably a good idea to be nice to each other» after that it gets twisted so that one small group of people can have some measure of control over a larger mass of people.

«The actions of companies such as Neconde in mass sack of Nigerian workers contribute in no small measure to the unending militancy in the Niger Delta.»

The latest study to bolster this argument was presented earlier in the meeting by lead author Courtney Dressing, another CfA astronomer, who measured the masses and sizes of a handful of small transiting planets to estimate the rocky - to - gaseous transition zone.

That is one of the surprising results of the first study to systematically measure the number of neurons in the brains of more than two dozen species of birds ranging in size from the tiny zebra finch to the six - foot - tall emu, which found that they consistently have more neurons packed into their small brains than are stuffed into mammalian or even primate brains of the same mass.

With scales accurate enough to measure the smallest unit of mass, aka the yoctogram, which is just one septillionth of a gram.

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.

«The weird thing that we're finding is if we actually go out and measure the masses of the satellites that we can see, little satellite galaxies, dwarf galaxies that we can see, if we measure those masses, those masses are actually smaller than a good number of the dark matter clumps that we predict should be there.»

Astronomers plan to measure masses for at least 50 TESS planets that are smaller than Neptune in the hopes that many of them will have rocky, and therefore potentially habitable, surfaces.

«I would therefore predict that the masses of the white dwarfs that are being formed in that population right now are going to be about 10 % smaller than the white dwarfs that I measured in the inner halo,» he says.

Specifically, they measured hydrogen and its isotope, deuterium (hydrogen with an extra neutron in its nucleus) with ion microprobes, which use a focused beam of ions to sputter ions from a small rock sample into a mass spectrometer.

An analysis of the distant galaxy shows that it measures merely 850 light - years across, 500 times smaller than the Milky Way, and is estimated to have a mass of only 40 million suns.

Under the program, David Heldebrant and Dongsheng Li will each receive five - year research grants that fund work designed to reduce carbon emissions, create new materials for energy storage and measure the mass of some of the smallest components of the universe.

The five inner planets are among the smallest whose masses and sizes have both been measured, and these measurements imply substantial envelopes of light gases.

Measuring in at around half the size of Makemake, RR245 is much smaller than other known dwarf planets in the neighborhood, but still meets the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) criteria of that category: namely, it's in orbit around the Sun, it has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a nearly round shape, and, unlike regular planets, it hasn't cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and it isn't a satellite.

Jun. 13, 2016 — The first study to systematically measure the number of neurons in the brains of birds has found that they have significantly more neurons packed into their small brains than are stuffed into mammalian and even primate brains of the same mass.

When Soria and his team of researchers measured P13's mass, they found that the black hole was actually on the smaller side, suggesting that black holes can consume more gas and produce more light than previously believed.

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.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

Lesson objective: Convert metric measures of mass and capacity from larger units to smaller units by looking at the relationship between the metric system and the base 10 system.

Aside from variations in line strength and line broadenning with height, their is the important point that, relative to the mass path of CO2 (distances measured in terms of kg per unit area), temperature variations at those heights occur over small scales.

Sea level change based on satellite altimetry is measured with respect to the Earth's centre of mass, and thus is not distorted by land motions, except for a small component due to large - scale deformation of ocean basins from GIA.

To carry out the study, the researchers developed a new sample extraction and mass spectrometry method that allowed them to precisely measure the carbon isotopic composition of methane in very small ice core samples.

The results show that when measured by mass, the restored wetlands were, on average, a small net source of carbon.

I agree that these numbers are not a correct measure, but even so they tell that any effect on the Sun or the Earth is very small, and that Saturn, in particular, is already so distant that neither its mass nor its magnetic fields can have much influence on anything in the Sun or for the Earth.

You might argue that you can plan 3 small trees in the space needed by the bigger tree and the advantage tilts back to the smaller tree, but one would need to measure and test this before making such a statement (for example, an old, large tree could easily weigh 100 + tonnes, grow at 2 % (2000 kg) per year yet take up less space than the 100 small trees required to store the same amount of mass.