Sentences with phrase «tugs of other planets»

The observed advance of the perihelion is composed of these pieces: 5030 ″ precession of the equinoxes 530 Gravitational tugs of the other planets < === here is where the planets come in ~ 0 Oblateness of the Sun 43 General relativity 5601 Total 5600 Observed

Although the gravitational tugs of other planets account for most of Mercury's precession, they don't account for all of it.

Due to gravitational effects in the solar system, such as the tug of other planets, Mercury's oval - shaped path around the sun slowly turns, or precesses.

As the Earth orbits the sun, the gravitational tug of the other planets slightly alters orbital characteristics (precession, tilt, ellipticity) on a timescale of tens of thousands of years.

Not exact matches

The gravity of the other giant planets also tugs on Uranus, so this must be taken into account.

Using a new computer technique that accounts for the planets» gravitational tugs on each other, astronomer Simon Grimm of the University of Bern in Switzerland and his colleagues calculated the seven planets» masses with five to eight times better precision than before.

These telescopes rely on detecting any Doppler shifting of the parent star caused by an orbiting planet tugging it this way and that, but this method is vulnerable to interference from eruptions on the star's surface and other distractions.

Now new research finds that, thanks to gravitational tugging and other factors, two of those planets may be warm and possibly friendly to life.

The way the planets tug at each other, the way the skin of the Earth moves, the way those motions affect climate and the evolution of life and intelligence, they all combined to give us the means to turn the mud of those river deltas into the first civilizations.

The changes in eccentricity of Earth's orbit are due to alterations in the gravitational tugs induced by other planets.