Sentences with phrase «solar systems alignment»

what i truely believe is that the moon on that day dec 23 2012 will escape the earth gravity because of the solar systems alignment with the milky way and the same goes for the other planets moons causing the moons too sling shot in every direction.

Not exact matches

Historically, this rare alignment is how we measured the size of our solar system.
The three new planets orbiting EPIC 201367065 are just out of alignment; while they are visible from Earth, our solar system is tilted just out of their view.
Eventually, the pair saw that if they ran simulations using a hypothetical massive planet in what's called an anti-aligned orbit — a path in which the planet's perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, is 180 degrees from all of the other objects and known planets in the solar system — their six strangely behaving objects moved in the strange alignment that they actually do in reality.
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, NASA's Kepler Mission revealed that, thus far, it has detected 1,235 planetary candidates orbiting 907 host stars, from a survey of some 155,453 stars in constellations Cygnus and Lyra using the transit method which requires a rare orbital alignment across the face of the host star as seen from the Solar System.
This heat builds up after several decades and releases that excess over the following decades: cold then hot, cold again then hot again, these synods, also called grand planetary alignments, are of different strengths due to the varying perihelia and aphelia of the four gas giants, especially Jupiter which is the closest to the Sun and more massive than all other Solar System's planets and moons combined.
The space probe Voyager 2's trip through our solar system is known as the Planetary Grand Tour because, thanks to a planetary alignment that only happens once every 175 years, the probe was able to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all in a single flyby.
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