Sentences with phrase «transit system the size»

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As Amazon nears a decision on the location for its second headquarters, it's weighing a number of factors about each city: access to transit systems, the size and makeup of the local workforce, available real estate and tax breaks.

As early as 1761, the transit of Venus across the Sun, critical for enabling astronomers to calculate the size of the solar system, led to international coordination.

From the European Space Agency (ESA): «The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will identify and study thousands of exoplanetary systems, with an emphasis on discovering and characterising Earth - sized planets and super-Earths.

The survey will net thousands of new exoplanets similar in size and distance from their star as those in our own solar system, complementing the work started by NASA's Kepler mission and the upcoming work of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

From subsequent follow - up observations, we rejected each of these as an astrophysical false positive, i.e. a stellar system containing an eclipsing binary, whose light curve mimics that of a Jupiter - sized planet transiting a sun - like star.

Historically, transits of Venus were important, because they allowed astronomers to directly determine the size of the astronomical unit, and hence of the solar system.

In addition, a state must ensure that its SSO agency adopts and enforces relevant federal and state safety laws, has investigatory authority, and has appropriate financial and human resources for the number, size and complexity of the rail transit systems within the state's jurisdiction.

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Artist Statement TESS - NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will be scanning for new planets outside of our solar system, ranging from Earth - sized ones to gas giants, monitoring 200 000...

But you can't deny they had some big innovations: - They use mini-buses instead of full sized buses, because small capacity make a better transit system.