Sentences with phrase «time of the earth»

It possesses a dense nitrogen - rich atmosphere with a surface pressure one and a half times that of Earth's.

Heck, even our 365 - day calendar is not accurate, and it needs a one day adjustment every 4 years to catch up to the real orbiting time of the earth.

Calculations indicate that in several ways it is quite an Earth - like planet: its radius is 1.2 to 2.5 times that of Earth; its mass is 3.1 to 4.3 times greater; and, crucially, its orbit lies within its star's «Goldilocks zone», which means its surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water - and therefore potentially life - to exist on its surface.

That caused pressures to spike to more than a million times those of Earth's atmosphere and temperatures to rise to thousands of degrees, conditions scientists had predicted may lead to the formation of superionic ice.

It is 318 times more massive than Earth, with a diameter 11 times that of Earth, and its volume is 1300 times as great as that of Earth.

The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles).

With knowledge only of the luminosity of the star (1/600 that of the sun), the mass of the planet (1.3 times that of Earth), and the length of its orbit (11.2 days), the team was able to predict that, with a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surface.

Here's some reasons why: Venus's surface temperature hovers around a sweltering 870 degrees Fahrenheit (465 degrees Celsius), its surface pressure is about 90 times that of Earth (which is akin to the pressure a kilometer, or 0.6 mile, below the ocean's surface), and there are no seasons there.

The size of only 1.4 times that of Earth was the smallest confirmed planet when we discovered it.

We were delighted to find a planet of minimum mass 22 times that of Earth.

With a mass approximately 23 times that of our Earth, the exoplanet GJ436b rotates around its star in only three days and has an atmosphere which leaves behind a gigantic trail of hydrogen.

Follow - up observations at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, an Italian telescope on the Canary Islands, provided the planet's mass: roughly 12 times that of Earth.

Focusing on planet candidates that have a diameter no smaller than 1.2 times that of Earth could speed up the mission, says Gilliland, because they cast a deeper shadow and so are easier to pick out from the stellar noise.

As the spacecraft sidled up to the comet, it sampled the water streaming from the comet body and found 67P's D / H ratio to be staggeringly high — more than three times that of Earth's oceans (SN: 1/10/15, p. 8).

Magnetars have the mass of the sun packed into a star the size of a city and have magnetic fields a hundred trillion times that of Earth.

Gliese 876D, for instance, has an orbit tighter than Mercury's and a solid mass several times that of Earth, and it may rotate so slowly that sunrise, imagined here, unleashes a fiery hell.

At the beginning of 2016, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, USA) announced that they had evidence of the existence of this object, located at an average distance of 700 AU or astronomical units (700 times the Earth - Sun separation) and with a mass ten times that of Earth.

With a diameter 1.42 times that of Earth's and a density 1.6 times Earth's, Kepler - 10b is the best characterized exoplanet yet, says Kepler team member Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Its heart is a giant doughnut - shaped magnet with a magnetic field 3,000 times that of Earth.

The pellet will immediately implode, reaching a temperature of more than 100 million degrees at a pressure 100 billion times that of Earth's atmosphere.

It weighs about eight times that of Earth, making it a super-Earth as well.

They found that at pressures equivalent to 3.25 million times that of Earth's atmosphere, hydrogen entered a new solid phase — named phase V — and started to show some interesting and unusual properties.

The masses for planet c and planet d are estimated to be about two and a half and four times that of Earth respectively, although the uncertainty in these two determinations is very high.

It turns out that planets with radii greater than about 1.7 times that of Earth are have a gassy envelope, like Neptune, and those with radii smaller than this are rocky, like our home planet.

The more solid planetary detection is the super-Earth HD 1461 b, with an estimated mass 7.4 times that of Earth.

The planet, only 22 light - years away, has a mass at least 4.5 times that of Earth.

The melting temperature was 4726 °C when under pressures equivalent to 2 million times that of Earth's atmosphere (Nature Physics, doi.org/gcv8xr).

From the amount of light lost, astronomers can deduce the planet's size — in this case only 1.4 times that of Earth.

The planet may have a mass as small as 1.4 times that of Earth; the smallest worlds discovered thus far are around five times the mass of Earth.

Magnetars have the mass of the sun packed into a star the size of a city and have magnetic fields a hundred trillion times that of the Earth.

The team's computer simulations indicate that the planet's orbit isn't face - on, which constrains its mass to one to 2.7 times that of Earth, implying that it has a terrestrial composition but its tidally locked day side should be hot enough to melt lead (Ken Croswell, Science Magazine, March 11, 2015).

The observations by Dr. Anglada - Escudé's team have shown that both of the newly discovered planets are «Super-Earths,» which are worlds whose masses can be up to 10 times that of the Earth.

If confirmed, the new planet, dubbed «Planet Nine» for the time being, would have a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbit 20 times farther from the Sun than Neptune, on average.

Twelve of the new planet candidates have diameters between one to two times that of Earth, and orbit in their star's habitable zone.

The second planet, called Kapteyn c, was found to have a mass at least seven times that of Earth and an orbital period of 121.5 days, which puts it well outside of the star's habitable zone.

A dozen of the new candidates have diameters one to two times that of Earth's and nine of those orbit stars similar to our sun in terms of size and temperature.

LHS 1140b receives an insolation of 0.46 times that of Earth, placing it within the liquid - water, habitable zone [8].

The smallest exoplanet hitherto discovered has a radius 1.42 times that of the Earth's radius (R Earth), and hence has 2.9 times its volume.

In the case of Kepler - 10c, the planet has a mass 17 times that of Earth and is a dense, rocky planet.

Its radius was just 1.5 times that of the Earth.

The pressure is some 90 times that of Earth's at sea level.

Between 2005 and 2008, researchers discovered five super-Earths, each boasting masses between five and 10 times that of the Earth.

The object has at least 8.6 times the mass of Jupiter, with a similar diameter (about 11 times that of Earth).

Although many scientists believe that Venus may once have had oceans of water on its surface (in part because its ratio of deuterium to ordinary hydrogen is now measured to be around 150 times that of the Earth's), most of it has been lost the past five billion years.

According to Vogt, we wind up with a planet with minimum mass of 2.2 times that of Earth orbiting at 0.13 AU, «solidly in the star's classical liquid water Habitable Zone.»

With a (revised) diameter of 2.63 ± 0.11 times that of Earth, the mass of the planet was derived from radial - velocity measurements using the ESO 3.6 - meter telescope and its HARPS spectrograph)(ESO press release; Bean et al, 2010; Charbonneau et al 2009; Geoffrey Marcy, 2009; Rogers and Seager, 2009; Dennis Overbye, New York Times, December 16, 2009; and Ivan Seminuik, New Scientist, December 16, 2009).

While they anticipated finding a range of worlds between one and four times that of Earth, they would that most were either rocky planets up to 1.75 times as large as our planer, or dense gas worlds (mini-Neptunes) 2.0 to 3.5 the size of the Earth.

One of the few things we know about Proxima b, besides that it is a rocky planet with a mass 1.3 times that of Earth, is that its orbit is in the so - called «Goldilocks zone» of its sun: not too hot nor too cold for liquid water, making it a potential host for life — alien, human or both.

It has a mass of about 1.3 times that of Earth.

The smallest planet orbits Kepler - 33, a star older and more massive than our Sun, Sol, which also had the most detected planet candidates at five (ranging in size from 1.5 to 5 times that of Earth) in uninhabitable, hot inner orbits closer to their star than even Mercury around our Sun (NASA Kepler news release; and JPL news release).