Sentences with phrase «tidal forces at»

But, keep in mind, the per - unit - length strength of Jupiter's tidal forces at the Sun is at most about 3 millionths of the same measure of the Moon's tidal forces on the Earth.

``... the per - unit - length strength of Jupiter's tidal forces at the Sun is at most about 3 millionths of the same measure of the Moon's tidal forces on the Earth.»

[1] When Europa orbits around Jupiter, the moon experiences varying tidal forces at different points in its orbit.

Not exact matches

The tidal forces from Earth could cause moons to slowly migrate outwards (the current Moon is slowly doing that at a pace of about 1 cm a year).

A striking image presented here 3 June at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society shows a globular cluster known as Palomar 5 being torn asunder by tidal forces of our home galaxy.

Another approach operates at the bottom of New York City's East River, where in 2006 Verdant Power, Inc., planted six windmill - like turbines — each 16 feet (five meters) in diameter — 30 feet (nine meters) below the surface and churning at a peak rate of 32 revolutions per minute to transform strong tidal forces into electricity.

The fact that Titan has significant mountains at all suggests that some active tectonic forces could be affecting the surface, for example, related to Titan's rotation, tidal forces from Saturn or cooling of the crust.

One explanation is that the long fractures in the ice crust experience more stress as gravitational tidal forces push and pull on the moon and so open vents at larger distances from Jupiter.

At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole, is a region wracked by powerful tidal forces and bathed in intense ultraviolet light and X-ray radiation.

Other factors, such as tidal forces from the Moon, might also be at play, he says — and indeed, Peng's data show some signs of a cyclical pattern that might correlate to tidal patterns.

A new study by Kaloyan Penev et al suggests that Q varies a lot depending on the tidal «forcing period» (that is, the period at which a planet would appear to orbit, if viewed when rotating with the spinning star, with an extra factor of a half since there are two tides per orbital cycle).

Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, shoots water near the farthest point in its orbit from Saturn, when the tidal forces cause cracks at the moon's south pole to open.

A Person Falling Into A Black Hole Would Be Spaghettified If a person were able to survive long enough to describe the journey falling into a black hole, he / she would at first experience weightless as he / she goes into free fall, but then feel intense «tidal» gravitational forces as he / she gets closer to the black hole.

At such small separations, tidal forces become significant.

If a person were able to survive long enough to describe the journey falling into a black hole, he / she would at first experience weightless as he / she goes into free fall, but then feel intense «tidal» gravitational forces as he / she gets closer to the black hole.

Saxena and his colleagues wanted to look at another potential form of heating, caused by tidal forces.

Its highly elliptical orbit is fairly stable, as S2 would have to come 70 times closer to the hole (16 light - minutes) to be at risk of being destroyed by tidal forces from the hole's gravity.

The essential premise at the heart of this 450 - page tome is pretty basic: business enterprises, no matter how noble their history, can not survive the tidal forces of capitalism on the basis of good intentions alone.

In his unforgettable memoir, Istanbul: Memories and the City, Pamuk delivered a spectacular tour of history and the tidal forces of change that were slowly chiseling away at his beloved city during his childhood from the 1950s through the»70s.

What is missing on the fourth floor at MoMA is precisely the yeasty, unpredictable mix of forces that in Manhattan defined the last stand of the avant - garde, the last moment when an artist, sitting alone in a studio, could believe that the tidal sweep of history had brought art to this point, that all the grand philosophical ideas, the dreams of Plato, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, were with the artists, pushing them forward.

(Rising ocean levels due to human - forced climate change is resulting in worsening instances of tidal flooding at times of high tide.

In response to Bart: Bart says: July 27, 2011 at 7:13 pm «Well, that's the only kind available so, if they're suggesting something other than tidal forces, you and I are in agreement.

They do not calculate body - wide tidal forces in their paper, but look at perturbations induced by gravitational forces directly on the inelastic material of the sun «locally focussed tidal effects» if you will.

If you work it out (by all means, check my math), that means the tidal force from the Moon acting at the surface of the Earth's oceans is more than 1000 times greater than the tidal force from Jupiter acting at the surface of the Sun.

Bart says: July 27, 2011 at 7:13 pm Well, that's the only kind available so, if they're suggesting something other than tidal forces, you and I are in agreement.

Look at the horizontal part of the tidal force: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/tides.html

IF tidal forces are the driver, we'd expect the eruptions to be at the time of maximal flexion, which is the time of the maximal tidal forces.

Tidal forces from the great planets at the Earth are just tiny.

Your average New Yorker probably doesn't think very often about the force of water flowing in the East River (actually not a river at all, but a tidal channel).