Sentences with phrase «with orbital planes»

Kepler sees only a small fraction of the planetary systems in its gaze, those with orbital planes aligned edge - on to our view from Earth.

Not exact matches

A line drawn from this opening forms an acute angle with a line running through the eye socket (known as the orbital plane).

Although the rocket provided the spacecraft with the all the momentum required to propel it forward to Bennu, OSIRIS - REx needed an extra boost from the Earth's gravity to change its orbital plane.

They all line up with each other obediently enough, but their orbital plane is slightly offset from the sun's equator.

Having three detectors also enables researchers to make a rough measurement of the wave's polarization — a property that indicates how the black holes» orbital plane (the plane on which they rotate around each other) is orientated with respect to Earth.

Merline also discovered that these objects must be real by demonstrating that the new moons are moving in orbits that seem to be in the same plane as Charon, and with low orbital eccentricity — like Charon.

Davis & Wheatley (2009) present evidence of this limit that can be described as a line in the versus a-2 plane (with a being the orbital distance).

On March 5, 2015, a team of astronomers announced that numerical simulations constrain the size of planetary candidate Alpha Centauri Bb (with orbital period P = 3.24 days; and semi-major axis a = 0.042 AU) to less than 2.7 Earth - masses at an inclination of 45 to 53 degrees relative to Stars» AB orbital plane (Plavchan et al, 2015).

The different Q values also allow the planets to re-align their orbits with the spin of the star (so that the orbital plane is perpendicular to the star's spin axis) on a timescale shorter than the orbital period decay, thus explaining why there are many «aligned» hot Jupiters.

The Cygnus - Lyra neighborhood was chosen as the study area because it's well - populated with stars and lies high enough above the Earth's orbital plane that the sun, Earth and moon won't get in the way of Kepler's observations.

Based on the duo's calculation, they determined that a Mars - mass planetary object located approximately 60 AU from the sun, with an orbital tilt of eight degrees, would have enough gravitational influence to warp the orbital plane of distant KBOs by around 10 AU to either side.

Subsequent observations determined that the planetary body has an orbital period of 3.63 years, with a semi-major axis of around 2.36 AUs (slightly closer than Ceres's 2.77 AUs) and an eccentricity of 0.090 and an inclination of 7.14 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic (NASA factsheet).

In the early 1990s, one study found that coplanarity between the orbital and equatorial planes of nearby binaries (within 100 parsecs or 326 ly) that are composed of Sol - type stars (F5 - K5 V) «exists» for binaries with orbital separations up to the average orbital distance of Pluto in the Solar System — roughly 40 times the Earth - Sun distance or «astronomical unit» (AU).