Sentences with phrase «when planets formed»

Such objects would have disappeared when planets formed early in the solar system's history.
True Trojans come from material present when the planets formed, says Apostolos Christou at the Armagh Observatory in the UK.
«Mars is smaller and farther out from the sun; when the planets formed it would have cooled more quickly than Earth.
Countless smash - ups over the millennia spread around enough of these exotic metals that when our planet formed, they were baked right into its crust.
The scientists are still uncertain as to when the collisions occurredeither when the planet formed about four billion years ago or more likely, at a later date.
Margi Jenks, park interpreter, explained: Diamonds are remnants of carbon dioxide pockets from when our planet formed.
When the planet formed about 4.6 billion year ago, it was a hellish world of molten lava.
We know from hot Jupiters that Jupiter - like planets can change their orbital distance over time, so there is no guarantee that the orbital distances we are observing now are the same as when the planet formed.

Not exact matches

And by the way planets are (reasonably) smooth and round because they turn around all the time, and when the gases were forming together they obviously didn't create a box!
The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).
God put the dinosouars into the dirt and soil when he formed the planet.
God did not see fit to remove all other life forms from planet earth on October 25, 2003, and so we shared that day with our parents, our grandparents, our aunts and uncles, our friends, our church, our neighbors, the church custodian, the band, the caterers, the photographer, the nursery staff, the people who honked their horns when they saw «Just Married» sprayed in shaving cream on our car windows, and the people who didn't.
Using god for science is wrong.Materials be came present after the big bang as atoms.Eventually processes started which created rock.Our planet came together with many materials, such as gold, platinum and others.When a rainforest dies when it dries up, gets buried and compresses to form coal.Oil is made from sea organisms that die and get buried.The brain uses algorithms to process information.God does not need to be included.
the existence isnt any different because no one here can prove what happens when you die, no one, so i suggest you make the best of your time in this planet that has the perfect balance of oxygen for you to breath and be thankful to whatever happened in this planet that made so many animals and plants and nature coexist and allowed us to have a place to live... well sorry to those who were killed by religious agendas... Do you know that someone tried to shut me up once by saying, oh then how can we be so perfect in form, we cant be evolving because how come we do nt evolve today..
Think about David, the Bible stated that the Earth was without form when God created it and then he formed it into our planet.
Although it's pretty, politically correct and cliche» to say: «Jesus LOVES EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING», the truth of the matter is that the book of Revelation talks about a time when Jesus will spill a LOT of blood on the earth and will do so in order to establish peace and order and to return the planet to its original, paradise form.
Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.
(When rocks form, their magnetic minerals line up with Earth's field, and that orientation is preserved when the rocks solidify, providing geophysicists with a record, written in stone, of the planet's magnetic paWhen rocks form, their magnetic minerals line up with Earth's field, and that orientation is preserved when the rocks solidify, providing geophysicists with a record, written in stone, of the planet's magnetic pawhen the rocks solidify, providing geophysicists with a record, written in stone, of the planet's magnetic past.)
The researchers ran the model for a broad parameter space for variables that may have been important around 4 billion years ago when the iconic valley networks on the planet's southern highlands were formed.
And how did these molecules survive the incredible temperatures and impacts when the planet was forming?
They soon realized the pair formed when two dwarf planets collided in the outer solar system.
When previously comparing halogen levels in meteorites that formed the planet, the Earth should have unhealthy levels of salt.
Planets that were rocky from the start should be smaller close to the stars, where studies of other young star systems suggest there should have been less material available when these planets were fPlanets that were rocky from the start should be smaller close to the stars, where studies of other young star systems suggest there should have been less material available when these planets were fplanets were forming.
Although every day of the year, somewhere on this planet, it is hurricane season, only when a set of unique conditions come together do hurricanes actually form.
Planets can go rogue in two ways: They can get kicked out of their parent planetary systems or form when a ball of gas and dust collapses (SN: 4 /...
It may have formed on Venus when winds in the planet's lower atmosphere slammed into a mountain range and were pushed into the upper atmosphere, where it got stuck, a team of Japanese researchers report January 16 in Nature Geoscience.
In previous studies, Martin Jutzi and Willy Benz, astrophysicist at CSH of the University of Bern and PlanetS director, had already come to the conclusion that Chury did not receive its two - component structure when our solar system was formed 4.5 billion years ago.
[T. L. Campante et al, An Ancient Extrasolar System with Five Sub-Earth-size Planets] Kepler 444 and its planets formed some 11.2 billion years ago, when the universe was less than one fifth its currePlanets] Kepler 444 and its planets formed some 11.2 billion years ago, when the universe was less than one fifth its curreplanets formed some 11.2 billion years ago, when the universe was less than one fifth its current age.
The planets took shape when tiny rocks collided, forming ever larger lumps.
The traditional model of how stars and their planets form dates back to the 18th century, when scientists proposed that a slowly rotating cloud of dust and gas could collapse under its own gravity.
After comparing it with domes on Earth, scientists now believe Ahuna Mons formed when a slushy mix of internal ice and natural antifreeze reached the surface along a duct — just as magma builds volcanoes on our planet.
The planet can form quickly when a large chunk of the disk becomes gravitationally unstable and collapses on itself.
Franck Montmessin of the LATMOS atmospheric research centre in France says ozone forms when sunlight breaks up carbon dioxide molecules on the planet's daylight side.
New research from The University of Texas at Austin adds evidence to a theory that claims the metallic cores of rocky planets like Earth were formed when molten metal trapped between grains of silicate rock percolated to the center of the planet during its early formation.
The finding calls into question the interpretation of prior experiments and simulations that sought to understand how metals behave under intense heat and pressure when planets are forming.
Another 46 dishes are being assembled at the low site, and when they are all in place, they should reveal other hidden regions of cold gas and dust where stars and planets form — as well as untold surprises.
This is Mercury's dominant form of deformation [which, researchers believe, happened when] the planet was shrinking.»
DEBRIS thrown up when Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 hurtled into Jupiter last July now forms a clearly visible dark band in the planet's southern hemisphere, say astronomers who spotted it last month.
Because comets contain material from when the sun and planets formed, Rosetta can answer questions about the evolution of the solar system and the origin of water (and possibly life) on Earth.
In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the nation.
The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered oxygen in 67P Churyumov - Gerasimenko's atmosphere — and the team thinks it may date back to the birth of the solar system, when comets and planets first formed.
The exact distances the planets migrated inward depends on when they formed.
Churchill assumes that planets are formed from the gas that is torn off a star when another star passes close to it — a model suggested by astrophysicist James Jeans in 1917, which has since been ruled out.
This effect — caused by neighboring stars that were present when Uranus and Neptune were forming but have since moved away — may explain why these planets don't have gas envelopes like Jupiter and Saturn do.
Volcanoes are openings, or vents, in Earth's crust through which magma — formed when the planet's upper mantle and lower crust melts — and gases are discharged.
But the most likely reason, researchers report in a paper accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is that these extrasolar planets would simply be ejected by the gravitational forces that result when their parent stars get jostled about inside tightly - packed star clusters — the same clusters in which most stars are thought to be formed.
«Normally when people talk about stars with planets forming, they're often talking about a system that's a billion years old,» Greaves says.
When later generations of stars form, some of that material congeals into rocky planets like Earth.
Earth's moon probably formed when a large body collided with the young planet and sent hot mantle material flying into space.
It is widely accepted that the Earth's inner core formed about a billion years ago when a solid, super-hot iron nugget spontaneously began to crystallize inside a 4,200 - mile - wide ball of liquid metal at the planet's center.
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