Sentences with phrase «trip around our solar system»
If cyclical extinctions do occur, the current thinking goes, it's the solar system's trip around the galaxy, rather than another star's trip around our solar system, that causes the die - offs.
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Because Mercury rotates so slowly — once every 58 Earth days, compared to a Mercury year, a complete trip around the Sun, lasting only 88 Earth days — the part of the planet at dawn spends a disproportionately long time in the path of one of the solar system's primary populations of micrometeoroids.
The Cassini mission to Saturn, the twin Voyagers» trips beyond the solar system, Curiosity's rove around the Martian surface, New Horizons» pass by Pluto and Galileo's close encounter with Jupiter were all brought to you by the radioactive element plutonium - 238.