Sentences with phrase «tidal forces which»

And, the atmosphere also is affected by these tidal forces which could explain part of what happens with the trade winds.

Not exact matches

This spot is believed to be the nucleus of the former spiral galaxy, which was ejected from the system during the collision and is now being shredded by tidal forces to produce the visible stellar stream.

Astronomers suspected that tidal forces, which arise because the Milky Way's gravity is stronger on one side of the cluster than on the other, could break up clusters — especially more diffuse ones.

Over time, Mars» gravitational pull would have pulled that moon toward the planet until it reached the Roche limit, the distance within which the planet's tidal forces will break apart a celestial body that is held together only by gravity.

The rings mark Saturn's Roche limit: the distance from the planet beyond which its gravitational tidal forces are weak enough to let moons there survive.

While Saturn is mostly a gigantic shroud of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium, it contains a rocky core — about 18 times the size of Earth, which responds to tidal forces from all of Saturn's major moons by bulging.

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).

This hot slush is created by tidal forces from the mammoth gravity of Jupiter, which slowly knead the moon as it moves in its orbit, generating enormous amounts of heat as rock crystals rub against each other.

In addition, tidal forces affecting the Oort Cloud come from the differential gravitational forces exerted by stars in the Milky Way's galactic disk and by the galactic core on the Sun and comets as a result of their relative location in the Solar System, which have been modelled with numerical simulations (Duncan et al, 1987).

One possibility is that the central star of Mz 3 has a closely orbiting companion that exerts strong gravitational tidal forces, which shape the outflowing gas.

LOD is likely related to unknown or underestimated climate drivers, like combined tidal forcing variations which can impact plate tectonics, volcanoes, ocean currents, ice mass stability etc. etc..

But, gravity permeates to the inside and makes it move in the same way as the outside, so there is no relative change between the inside and the outside except for the extent to which they are accelerated or decelerated differently due to the gravity gradient and its induced tidal forces.

And Earth's core is hot, because of primordial heat from formation, radioactive decay of Earth core, Lunar tidal forces, AND the varying tidal force of the Sun which happens with Earth's periodic varying eccentricity.

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.

There may be subtle things going on in the interior that we don't know about: the sun might not be symmetric on the inside, for example, in which case tidal forces may cause a torque on the sun, perturbing the sunspot generation, or other more exotic things.

The only internal dynamical effect comes about from the small deviation of geodesic lines for neighboring mass elements, which is what the tidal forces really are.

The system could well be a «weakly forced nonlinear oscillator» in which a range of external forcings (solar, tidal, Milankovich etc.) interact with the systems own nonlinear oscillations and resonances to yield the end result of an almost intractably complex climate