Sentences with phrase «synchronous rotation»

Such a planetary orbit is likely to be in synchronous rotation with its host star, so that one side is always facing the star with perpetual daylight while the other side is in perpetual darkness.

The other factor that arises from this is that CMEs, of all the various dangerous stellar eminations, appear to be most responsible for planetary atmospheric erosion so anything that mitigates their effect has got to be good in terms of planetary habitability and most of all in M dwarf systems where the «habitable zone» is close to the star and well within the region of synchronous rotation.

Since the moon spins on its axis at the same speed it revolves around Earth, what scientists call synchronous rotation, you'll always have a good view of home.

Such stars used to be dismissed because any planet orbiting close enough to stay warm gets locked into synchronous rotation: One hemisphere perpetually faces the star, growing sizzling hot, while the other side points away, becoming so cold that any atmosphere would freeze onto the surface.

Furthermore, they are locked in a mutual synchronous rotation while having an almost circular, no - eccentric orbit, which disfavor the formation of any currently active geological processes on their surfaces or interiors.

Planets with such orbits are also more likely to have greater orbital eccentricity which if not too large can in turn can contribute to non synchronous rotation such as 3:2 or even 2; 1 resonances, as seen in Mercury with an orbital eccentricity of 0.2.

According to this theory, both Pluto and Charon were initially much closer toward one another and subsequently started to move away, until they were locked to their present synchronous rotation.

Some planets around low mass stars are expected to be in synchronous rotation, so that the star is continually fixed upon one side.

There seems to be a lot of concern regarding the possibility of synchronous rotation (often mistakenly assumed to be the same as «tidally locked»).

Most inner moons of planets have synchronous rotation, so their synchronous orbits are, in practice, limited to their leading and trailing Lagrange points.

Astronomers were reluctant to drop the synchronous rotation theory and proposed alternative mechanisms, such as powerful heat - distributing winds to explain the observations.

Planets in the habitable zone of low - mass, cool stars are expected to be in synchronous rotation, where one side of the planet always faces the host star (the substellar point) and the other side experiences perpetual night (the anti-stellar point).

The problem with planets orbiting M - dwarfs is that they are prone to fall into «synchronous rotation» so that one side of the planet always faces the star, while the other side remains in perpetual darkness.

Synchronous rotation can occur as a result of tidal forces from gravitational interactions between two orbiting bodies (Earth's moon is an example of an object in synchronous rotation, so that we only ever see one side from the ground).

Here there be perigees, apogees, eccentricity, synchronous rotation and much, much more.