Sentences with phrase «whole solar systems»

Dualists must suppose that they did not exist on our planet, and probably in the whole solar system, before animals and man existed.
In fact, it dominates a region larger than any of the other known planets — a fact that Brown says makes it «the most planet - y of the planets in the whole solar system
Seemingly innocuous specks could throw off the whole solar system — and we might not see them until it's too late.
The only way to do this is with a supernova that sprinkled the whole solar system with stuff, out where the asteroids formed.»
Unlike Pluto, Planet Nine is so massive that its gravity dominates a region of the solar system that's bigger than any of the other known planets — something that Brown said makes it «the most planet - y of the planets in the whole solar system
«This planet really could have formed the same way Jupiter did — the whole solar system could be a lot like ours.»
Our Sun, together with the whole Solar System, is orbiting the Galactic Center at the distance given, on a nearly circular orbit.
I wanted to make one more game where you get to explore the whole solar system and travel from planet to planet.
Surely the MUST be an influence on the WHOLE solar system to be causing warming of this scale!
I was when I started, 25 years ago, funded only by part of my own hourly wage, just because it needed to be done, I offer it here as a contribution to the overall increased understanding of how the whole solar system works.
The postulated effects are from increased solar ultraviolet output, affecting upper atmosphere chemistry, and from stronger solar wind — the continuous flow of charged particles emanating from the sun that bathes the whole solar system.
It is about the highly exact geometrical relationships pervading the whole solar system and rich in pi and phi.
They deny the existence of solar influence on climate let alone the influence of the whole solar system.
It is not the Earth's magnetic field that deflects cosmic rays, but the solar field associated with the solar wind and SEP (charged particles) that flow out through the whole solar system.

Not exact matches

By mapping out the location, brightness, and details of the stars in our galaxy, Gaia helps us understand where and how our solar system fits into the greater whole.
Another user, Tri Huynh in the Bay Area, said his whole solar roof system with three Powerwall home battery systems checked in around $ 100,000.
That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.
That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental concatenations of atoms; that no force, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can presume an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the age, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon - day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin... all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.
This point was reinforced about 200 years after Newton when Albert Einstein's discovery of general relativity produced the modern theory of gravity — capable of explaining not only the behavior of our little local solar system but also the structure of the whole cosmos.
Take learning about space and planets to a whole new level with this Solar System snack!
Because the other planets in the solar system all exist along a flat plane, their angular momentum works to keep the whole disk spinning smoothly.
Whole libraries could be filled with the wonders gleaned from the robotic exploration of the solar system, and we've only scratched the surface.
What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.
The feature is very wide, she notes: «The whole radius of our solar system would fit within the disk's gap.»
In the 4.5 - billion - year history of the solar system, whole mountain ranges and craters on Pluto's surface have simply vaporized.
Current models suggest that planets should orbit in the same direction as their star's rotation (as is true for our solar system), in keeping with the view that the whole shebang formed from the same spinning disk of material.
«It could swallow our solar system whole,» says astronomer Karl Gebhardt of the University of Texas, Austin, who presented the new results here Wednesday afternoon at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
The Wonders of the Universe BBC Physicist Brian Cox returns as host for this follow - up to the interplanetary investigations of BBC's Wonders of the Solar System, this time guiding viewers on a whirlwind tour of the whole cosmos.
With its keen eye for anything that moves, LSST should also reshape our understanding of the solar system as a whole by discovering millions of new objects, mostly in its shadowy outer realms.
The solar system as a whole formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago from a collapsing disk of dust and gas.
The increased solar radiation has led to a significant increase in snowpack temperature, which in turn led to a whole series of shifts in the lake system.
«The idea that we could discover the remnants of an asteroid belt interior to Mercury's orbit is scientifically seductive: a whole new class of objects in the solar system
The belt contains essential information about the planetary formation processes, including both the «cold disk» that harbors the objects that are thought to formed in situ with the whole planetary system, and the «hot / scattered disk» that is the refuge of objects that are dynamically scattered into it during the dynamical evolution of the inner solar system.
Meteorites as a whole are still important clues about what processes occurred during the formation of the solar system, but which ones are the best analogs for what the planets were made out of would change.»
National and independent observatories should be viewed as integrated systems — one for ground - based OIR astronomy, one for ground - based solar astronomy, and one for radio astronomy — of capabilities and resources for the United States as a whole.
Jim Green: The Snowball Earth era reminds me of several objects in the Solar System now that we're trying to study, one of which is Europa, [which has] got this fabulous icy crust over the whole moon and underneath it perhaps as much as twice the volume of water than exists here on Earth.
How did deuterium (heavy hydrogen) form, and why is its concentration in comets twice as great as in earth's oceans and 20 — 100 times greater than in interstellar space and the solar system as a whole?
Proxima is actually the closest star to our solar system, but, as a whole, the Alpha Centauri system is considered to be the nearest star system to our Earth and sun.
New all - terrain vehicles adapted to different environments and low - cost portable solar power solutions are making the whole health system a better and safer environment.
This works at every level: our atoms working in harmony to create and keep our cells whole, our cells coming into harmony to create our bodies, our body's ability to come into harmony with other bodies to create communities and cultures, our culture's ability to get along and stop fighting in order to create a world of people living in harmony as one planet, the plants creating the harmony that hold our solar system together, and on and on.
An inspection from Commonwealth Home Inspections will include all of the major items in your new home including but not limited to; structural and foundations, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing and flashings, attic insulation and ventilation, driveways and walkways, grading and siding, chimneys and fireplaces etc. (Sprinkler systems, solar systems, swimming pools, outdoor Jacuzzi, whole house vacuum systems and low voltage systems are not inspected)
Other amenities include Whole House Audio, Smart Home Thermostats and Security Cameras, Solar Panel System providing electricity and hot water, UV Treated Pool.
The mysterious sphere hovering around the last city, called the Traveler, is detailed during the game's plot, as is the Darkness, the likewise mysterious force that's spreading across the solar system and the whole universe.
Of the whole trip this impressed me most of all; it left me with a lasting sensation of the solar system.
With the current GHG content in the atmosphere, more solar energy arrives than leaves via radiation -LRB-.85 + / -.15 Watt / m ^ 2), which raises the heat content of the terrestrial system, i.e., the average temperature over the whole earth + oceans + atmosphere.
The current state of solar technology has enabled a whole new energy revolution, as system costs drop while grid prices rise.
It is a Whole Earth Catalogue of green systems, with a rainwater collection system; hydroponic garden to grown food for the community; biological wastewater treatment system to convert black water to greywater and potable water; earth tubes to funnel clean, natural air into the building through underground ducts; vertical axis wind turbines and solar panels for on - site green energy; and hydrogen fuel cells powered by methane, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment system.
So, huge carbon savings, and since interest rates are below 10 %, most any builder would install a GSHP and / or super-insulation and / or passive / active solar and / or whole house ventilation instead of a conventional HVAC system if the buyer had to consider monthly energy costs the same as monthly payments when facing the bank.
A schematic of the solar system, where the energy received by the earth is the sunlight intercepted by its cross-section, and where the heat loss on average is due to thermal emission from the whole surface area of the planet.
Build your solar farms so if a module fails (or the attached inverter if any), it doesn't knock out the whole system, and build a process to detect the failure and schedule a replacement.
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