Sentences with phrase «swings around the sun»

In one particularly explicit example of such instability, another bright sungrazer, Comet Lovejoy, largely disintegrated after its swing around the sun two years ago.

Masse's biggest idea is that some 5,000 years ago, a 3 - mile - wide ball of rock and ice swung around the sun and smashed into the ocean off the coast of Madagascar.

But when Comet ISON swings around the sun in late November, amateurs and professionals alike will be watching in anticipation.

After the coming flyby, planned for Valentine's Day next month, Rosetta will not come this close again until 2016, once the comet has swung around the Sun and headed back out to space.

Otherwise, attempts to pinpoint Philae's location may have to wait until 2016, once the comet has swung around the Sun and the original planned mission is completed, adds Accomazzo.

Not exact matches

According to the researchers» calculations, such a hypothetical planet would complete one orbit around the Sun roughly every 17,000 years and, at its farthest point from our central star, it would swing out more than 660 astronomical units, with one AU being the average distance between Earth and the Sun.

One by one, Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury are all tossed out of their orbits as Jupiter swings around our star on a path that takes it from the outer solar system to the sun's searing doorstep.

It follows a roughly circular orbit that swings it once around the sun every 286 years.

In the fall, after the comet swings back around the sun, it may be visible to southern hemisphere viewers using small telescopes.

The new route means the Psyche spacecraft won't have to swing around the Earth to build up speed and won't pass as close to the sun, so it needs less heat protection.

But as it whirled past the sun and swung around on its return path beyond the outer reaches of the solar system, the solar radiation reacted with its nucleus and a...

This only lasted maybe 20 minutes and then the sun busted back out and the wind swung back around and off shore again.

As opposed to the longer period cycles of synod conjunction of the outer planets, which jointly swings the sun and the inner planetary system, around the SSB which beats the two long period set together, the inner planets at a rate of once every 17.95 Years and the outer planets periodicity of ~ 179.5 years.

Boiled down to simplest terms, they consist of a 100,000 - year cycle in the eccentricity of Earth's orbit, similar to the big 405,000 - year swing; a 41,000 - year cycle in the tilt of Earth's axis relative to its orbit around the Sun; and a 21,000 - year cycle caused by a wobble of the planet's axis.

the real flight trajectory is not the orbit line, which is in your head and in your simplistic imagination, but rather does pendulum swings around this line, which lengthens or shortens the distance to the Sun, thus producing more or less RF....

It then swings around the Solar System Centre of Mass (SSCM) and, of course, the Sun, and then goes back out again, to almost the same position on the Ecliptic Plane, that it started from, in another 5 years!

Now thinking about the Sun swinging all these «heavy» planets at the end of a very very long chain and it's not hard to see the profound effects on the suns motion around its centre.