Sentences with phrase «system sized objects»

Not exact matches

Normally many of the object - oriented programming languages clean up for you because they notice when you are running low on memory and haven't used a bit of code in a while, but in the case of these terascale systems, it would be like having a kitchen the size of a football field, so by the time you ran out of room, it would take weeks to clean it up.

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.

Just after sunset a shoe box — size airborne object collided with one of the choppers, damaging its main rotor blade, window frame and transmission system.

Astronomers are starting to suspect that the pebbles mixed with gas in the early solar system and then clumped together, growing from pebbles all the way up to objects the size of MU69.

This painting works because the objects are life - size and depicted in hyper - realistic detail, and also because Remps laid a set of decoys that hoodwink our visual system into perceiving depth, says Priscilla Heard, a neuropsychologist at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK.

In contrast to earlier observations the team did not observe dust that will later form into planets, but dust created in collisions between small planets of a few kilometres in size — objects called planetesimals that are similar to the asteroids and comets of the Solar System.

«If we're right, oceans in the outer solar system are common, and other objects of similar size to Pluto there probably also have subsurface oceans,» says Francis Nimmo, a lead author of one of the studies and planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Our solar system may have been born with dozens of planet - size objects that Jupiter ejected into interstellar space.

He's the man who recently stirred up a hornet's nest by finding lots of new objects orbiting in the outer reaches of the solar system, one of which — Eris — is around 1,400 miles wide, about the same size as Pluto.

Pint - size planetoid: The smallest extrasolar object yet found, only one - fifth the mass of Pluto, has been spied in an oddball solar system 1,500 light - years from Earth.

The models simulated the impact of an object large enough to create a basin of Sputnik Planum's size hitting Pluto at a speed expected for that part in the solar system.

But the comet - sized objects for which the researchers were searching are barely distinguishable from the measuring system's background noise.

Astronomers who recently discovered the so - called 10th planet have also found what may be the weirdest object in the solar system: a Pluto - size orbiter shaped like a squashed football.

But a low - mass star can not have the size exceeding the size of a more massive companion in that double system, and would it be smaller, the eclipse would not take place at all, as you can not hide a larger object behind a smaller one.»

The standard model for the formation of the Earth - moon system is that a huge, Mars - size object hit Earth and spun off material that coalesced in orbit to become the moon.

Most compensate with complex systems of sensors and controls, but this design relies entirely on soft materials and a flexible framework to adapt to breakable objects of varying shape and size.

One system is responsible for visual perception and is necessary for identifying objects — such as approaching cars and potential mates — independent of their apparent size or location in our visual field.

New Horizons» flyby of the dwarf planet and its five known moons is providing an up - close introduction to the solar system's Kuiper Belt, an outer region populated by icy objects ranging in size from boulders to dwarf planets.

But the 1992 discovery of Kuiper Belt Objects, a collection of nearly planet - sized ice chunks orbiting at the fringes of the solar system, suggested to many astronomers that the inventory was incomplete.

Batygin began seeding his solar system models with Planet X's of various sizes and orbits, to see which version best explained the objects» paths.

«Most of the ways we have of measuring the sizes of objects in the outer solar system are fraught with difficulties,» Brown notes on his website.

The Gemini «speckle» data directly imaged the system to within about 400 million miles (about 4 AU, approximately equal to the orbit of Jupiter in our solar system) of the host star and confirmed that there were no other stellar size objects orbiting within this radius from the star.

While it is unlikely that astronomers will continue to find larger objects in the belt, Brown says that the region outside the belt, in the coldest hinterland of the solar system, could very well hold planet - size rocks.

That technique most readily picks up Jupiter - size planets in fast, Mercury - like orbits, objects unlike anything in our solar system.

Supernova remnants are huge objects by everyday standards, much larger than the size of our own solar system, but look small from a distance.

The result is an object having two distinct parts: a well - defined core of mostly carbon ash (a white dwarf star; see below End states of stars) and a swollen spherical shell of cooler and thinner matter spread over a volume roughly the size of the solar system.

This large debris disk is similar to the Kuiper Belt, which encircles the solar system and contains a range of icy bodies from dust grains to objects the size of dwarf planets, such as Pluto.

Hubble reveals details in objects as small as 20 times the size of our own solar system.

The nuclei of these galaxies change brightness every few weeks, so we know that the objects in the center must be relatively small (about the size of a solar system).

Traditionally, the solar system has been divided into planets (the big bodies orbiting the Sun), their satellites (a.k.a. moons, variously sized objects orbiting the planets), asteroids (small dense objects orbiting the Sun) and comets (small icy objects with highly eccentric orbits).

The new simulations performed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) researchers show that a single impact by a Mars - sized object in the late stages of Earth's formation could account for an iron - depleted Moon and the masses and angular momentum of the Earth - Moon system.

Our moon may have formed when a Mars - sized object crashed into the nascent Earth 4.5 billion years ago, and the resulting debris coalesced into the Earth - moon system.

In a sense, the vehicle uses radar to detection the relative position and velocity of off - board objects while the camera system is used to identify different objects based on size and shape.

An Institute study examined the effectiveness of rearview cameras, sensor systems and the two combined in preventing collisions with a stationary or moving 12 -15-month-old toddler - size object in the path of a reversing vehicle.

You'll then sprinkle your creation with assets, objects, characters and NPCs, all of which can be assigned different sizes and behaviours using a pleasingly robust logic system.

These are somewhat close calls by Solar System standards and don't include objects anywhere near the small size of whatever blew up over Siberia 100 years ago.

I can see Leif's objection to the idea that movement of the solar system barycentre has a significant effect on an object the size of the sun but is it necessary to propose an effect on the sun for Earth's climate purposes?

Tides follow an inverse cube law (to a first approximation for systems experiencing tides due to masses relatively far away compared to the system's size; for systems that are not small relative to the distance to the object producing the tidal acceleration, I think it's more complicated), and so the inner planets gain in importance relative to the outer planets, although mass is still important (and nonetheless, tides raised on the Sun by the planets are so tiny it's hard to imagine they could be of any such significance).