Sentences with phrase «term orbit around it»

We've sent five probes whizzing past it and parked one in a long - term orbit around it, but we just keep running into bigger puzzles.

Not exact matches

The aerospace company Lockheed Martin late Thursday (Sept. 28) revealed new details for its Mars Base Camp plan, an architecture aimed at building a crewed space station in orbit around the Red Planet that would support long - term exploration at Mars by astronautson 1,000 - day missions.

How it works: A program called SixTrack simulates high - energy particles traveling around the LHC to study the long - term stability of their orbits.

With a brown dwarf within a parsec of our own system being a hopeful and still - possible scenario for a more - accessible long - term destination than the Alpha Centauri system, I'd say the idea and hope that there could be something even semi-habitable in close orbit around that brown dwarf is a lot more exciting than just rocks or iceballs.

This amazing collection of works is on long - term view as a sort of proton at the center of our museum around which our program of changing exhibitions and performances will orbit with even more energy.»

Triton is a moon in a close retrograde orbit, data is very sparse, its «year» around Neptune is short, but Neptune's orbital period is longer than we have known about Triton, so again no data on long term secular trends.

This seems to me to be saying that the Earth is in a similar position in terms of its orbit around the sun to where it was at the onset of the last glacial.

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.

Similarly, one can use perturbation theory to analyze orbits of bodies around the Earth starting with the approximation that the Earth is a perfect sphere, and then correcting for the various bulges and such; the usefulness of the method doesn't depend on whether the Earth EVER was a perfect sphere, but only on whether the sphere is a sufficiently good approximation that the correction terms are mathematically well - behaved.

The argument goes something like this: There are long - term cycles, called Milankovitch cycles, in the Earth's tilt and orbit around the sun.