Sentences with phrase «solar system would»

Meaning, that if he were on the Yucatán Peninsula, say 65Mya, a few hours before you know what hit right aboot there, he would claim that 65Myr in to the future (e. g. December 21, 2012AD), the Solar System would be in total chaos, simply bescuse that's when his theory / numerical model goes to the crapper....

Meaning, that if he were on the Yucatán Peninsula, say 65Mya, a few hours before you know what hit right aboot there, he would claim that 65Myr in to the future (e. g. December 21, 2012AD), the Solar System would be in total chaos, simply bescuse that's when his theory / numerical model goes to the crapper (he's doing these calculations at 80 - bit extended precision BTW, but I really don't know why he's not using quad (128 - bit) precision).

If they all, clocks and mechanics, somehow slowed down then our great forays into space and now out of our solar system would not still be sending back signals..

i would have assumed that if the arms of a galaxy are higher densities of stars [which make them the «arms» in the first place], if anything, our solar system would be attracted to the «next arm» and would accelerate towards it, then decelerate after it left, due to the larger mass now «behind it.»

Most I think would assume that while General Relativity had strictly speaking replaced it, it was a good enough approximation for all practical purposes, but in fact if you limited gravity to the speed of light, the solar system would entirely fly apart after a few hundred thousand years.

Some of the research covered in the documentary includes scientists who are identifying and characterizing planets orbiting other stars (the other planets in our solar system would likely be more trouble than they're worth to make comfortable, the film argues); an engineer building a rocket fueled by plasma, the same charged particles found in our sun; and a team building a fleet of robots that could construct habitats before humans even arrive at their destination.

A rogue planet moving through the solar system would be pretty obvious to astronomers, who can detect planets far beyond our home solar system by looking for the wobbles their passage causes in the stars they orbit.

Almost all the extrasolar planetary systems known appear very different from the solar system, but planets like those within the solar system would with current technology be very difficult to find around other stars.

Imagine how the discovery of life outside our solar system would alter our priorities for space exploration and how we view our place in the universe.

In a recent paper titled «On the likelihood of non-terrestrial artifacts in the Solar System», published in the journal Acta Astronautica, myself and co-author Ravi Kopparapu discuss the likelihood that human exploration of the Solar System would have uncovered any non-terrestrial artifacts.

Viewed from a planet at Earth's orbital distance around Alpha Centauri A, stellar companion B would provide more light than the full Moon does on Earth as its brightest night sky object, but the additional light at a distance greater than Saturn's orbital distance in the Solar System would not be significant for the growth of Earth - type life.

The oxygen would have «burned up» the carbon to produce gases such as carbon dioxide and monoxide, which would have moved into the outer disk along with water vapor before chilling into ices, so that any solid carbon in the inner solar system would have been destroyed within a few years.

Researchers favored the second explanation, figuring that a supernova close to our budding solar system would have blasted our sun and its protoplanetary disk into bits.

Several years ago, putting up a 1 - megawatt solar system would have cost $ 8 million and taken six months.

An ideal solar system would have suitable gradations of adjacent orbital masses.

Researchers who model the early history of the solar system would like to know Phoebe's exact birthplace, but that's unlikely, Dalton notes: The outer planets migrated during that era and quickly scattered Kuiper Belt objects into new orbits.

A similar thing happens to a universe with relentless acceleration: Galaxies would be destroyed, the solar system would unbind and eventually all the planets would burst asunder as the rapid expansion of space rips apart its very atoms.

The feature is very wide, she notes: «The whole radius of our solar system would fit within the disk's gap.»

But then, whoever said unraveling the mysteries of the solar system would be easy?

But Voyager scientists had a hard time coming up with a compelling scenario to explain it — the notion that a saturnian moon might have exploded at a time when the solar system would have had few potential asteroids or comets to ram into it seemed far - fetched.

Roving Through Hell With so much at stake, you might think that the nearest planet in the solar system would be a prime target for exploration.

Meanwhile, a small 2.5 - kilowatt residential solar system would cost about $ 15,000 even after subsidies.

Before the space age, scientists thought the moons of the outer solar system would be featureless, geologically dead balls of ice.

An alien observing our solar system would think Venus, Earth and Mars all fall in the habitable zone.

May I offer that a diagram that emphasized a solar system would work better?

Obviously you don't realize that an asteriod the size of just the Empire State Building that actually makes it to the surface of the earth at the average speed of most objects coming from the asteroid belt in our solar system would cause enough destruction and devastation on earth to wipe out most if not all of the planet.

And aside from Mars, readers wanted to know what other places in the solar system would be good to explore.

«If Jupiter or Neptune had migrated inward after the terrestrial planets formed, it seems unlikely that our Solar System would have an Earth, or any of the terrestrial planets at all,» he told Phys.org.

«I really don't know the odds, but the discovery of life elsewhere in our solar system would be so significant, we have to find out,» Pappalardo said.

Astronomers who studied these images eventually realized that the nascent solar system had twisted inner and outer disks, not just one flat disk, and the moving material was causing the shadows, much like a bird flying in front of a lighthouse's lamp.

The sort - of - spaceship - shaped android that's briefly hurtling through our solar system has intrigued the scientists who scan the skies in search of signals from extraterrestrials.

Traditional solar systems have a return on investment period of 10 - 15 years, but these new Powerwall equipped systems are nearly cutting that in half.

The solar system has 7 planets (including the sun and moon) and the Earth is the center of the Universe.

Do you know that just recently, some evolutionary biologists discovered that some species grow younger with age, which is contradictory to the Evolutionary Theory, and that our Solar System has no Black Holes, which is contradictory to the Big Bang Theory?

Most of the planets in the Solar System have smaller bodies, or satellites, that orbit a planet.

The trip to the inner solar system has doomed it.»

In June, planet hunters and theorists met on the Greek island of Santorini to mull over the most bizarre solar systems they've found to date.

But very few single - star solar systems would be able to cast out a waterless object like an asteroid, a new study suggests.

Comets at the edge of the solar system have noble gas signatures resembling our atmosphere (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1179518).

McMaster researchers who have modelled planetary systems far beyond our own solar system have found that massive moons larger than Mars might be the best bet.

Likewise, nearly every planet in the solar system has moons.

Water molecules originating from different places in the solar system have different amounts of deuterium.

The search for aliens beyond our solar system has drawn a blank so far.

Five previously unknown asteroids in our solar system have photobombed new Hubble Space Telescope images.

Since then, all attempts to detect neutrinos from beyond the solar system have been unsuccessful.

Dr Wade said «Broadly speaking the inner planets in the solar system have similar composition, but subtle differences can cause dramatic differences — for example, rock chemistry.

But new measurements by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the largest storm in our solar system has downsized significantly.

-- here's a radical thought: Our solar system has only one true planet, and its name is Jupiter.

While astronomers bicker over whether our solar system has 8 planets or 10 — Does puny Pluto count?

The surface winds on three recently discovered gas giants in nearby solar systems would dry, and remove, your hair in no time.