Sentences with phrase «with planet mass»

The power law model population is dependent on four key parameters: How fast the number of planets changes with planet mass, how fast the number of planets changes with orbital distance, the outer-most orbital distance at which a planet can be detected, and the combination of mass and orbital distance that produces the most planets (the «pivot point»).

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The radical secularization that has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half - continent on the planet has at least as much to do with the craven surrender of ministers of the gospel to theological and political fads, and their consequent loss of faith, as it does with the impact of urbanization, mass education, and the industrial revolution on Europeans» understanding of themselves.

All these religions and the Gods associated with them were created by man to gain power and control the ignorant masses and put some order into societies which were dispersed throughout the planet.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

As the cloud that became our solar system collapsed inward, the mass settled into a spinning disc with a big bump in the middle (the Sun), and that disk began collapsing even more to form the planets.

Consequently, political leaders and military men continue to advocate these new weapons of mass destruction without regard to their incompatibility with the international law of human rights, let alone the norms of civilized life on this planet.

Thirdly, the Christian nations, made economically strong by both their political imperialism and their advanced state of technology, have not only constructed the weapons for nuclear war but also been most to blame for the selfish exploitation of the non-renewable resources of the earth, for the accumulating mass pollution, for the gross interference with the delicate ecology of the planet.

With much the same size, mass and composition as our home, Venus was a lush jungle planet in the popular imagination of the early 20th century.

Led by Renu Malhotra, a Regents» Professor of Planetary Sciences in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Lab, the team found that the four Kuiper Belt Objects with the longest known orbital periods revolve around the Sun in patterns most readily explained by the presence of a hypothetical «Planet Nine» approximately ten times the mass of Earth.

This class of planet — loosely defined as any world with up to 10 times Earth's mass — is like nothing in our solar system.

With knowledge only of the luminosity of the star (1/600 that of the sun), the mass of the planet (1.3 times that of Earth), and the length of its orbit (11.2 days), the team was able to predict that, with a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surfWith knowledge only of the luminosity of the star (1/600 that of the sun), the mass of the planet (1.3 times that of Earth), and the length of its orbit (11.2 days), the team was able to predict that, with a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surfwith a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surface.

If, however, a planet with a given mass has a very large radius, the density will be very low.

Now remember that force equals mass times acceleration and there is a whole lot of mass to go along with the acceleration, so the overall force isn't going to smash open the planet, but it's enough to smash through a crustacean's armor to inject some poison.

A planet's angular momentum equals the mass of an object multiplied by its distance from the Sun, and corresponds with the force that the planet exerts on the overall system's spin.

With more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined, Jupiter reigns supreme.

As the size of the planets we looked for decreased, the number that we found increased: We found more planets with 3 times the mass of the Earth than planets with 10 times Earth's mass, more planets 10 times as massive than 100 times, and so on.

Over millions of years, this «positive mass anomaly» caused the entire planet to tilt askew into its present alignment with Charon, similar to how a Frisbee with coins taped to one edge will tumble over instead of smoothly spinning.

If the planet is only one Earth mass, Jenkins says, any life there might be near its end; the world would be on the verge of a runaway greenhouse effect, with gravity too weak to prevent its life - giving water from boiling off into space due to rising surface temperatures.

Their mass is too small for full nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium (with a consequent release of energy) to take place, but they are usually significantly more massive than planets.

We are continuing to observe this cluster to find how stars with and without planets differ in mass and chemical makeup.»

As these neutrinos pass through the planet, they interact with atoms, creating muons — positive or negative particles with a mass much greater than an electron's.

Even with abundant carbon and nitrogen to consume, the size of the plant and its limited access to fresh water make it almost inconceivable that it could even survive in the Arctic, let alone muster up enough power and mass to change the Earth's entire climate, saving our planet, perhaps, from a Venus - like, overheated oblivion.

Who would have thought planets with such low masses would be there?

With about five times the mass of Jupiter, WISE 0855 resembles that gas giant planet in many respects.

«With the Earth in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, it is astonishing how little we know about our planet's biodiversity, even for charismatic groups such as tarantulas.»

As Charon's gravity pulls on Pluto, it would pull proportionally more on areas of higher mass, which would tilt the planet until Sputnik Planum became aligned with the tidal axis.

Norman Myers, a marathon runner in his spare time, takes the reader several times around the planet to support his thesis with regional case studies, while considering how problems such as population, mass migrations and the massive extinction of species are related.

«We've never looked at these systems before with the sensitivity of Webb, so it's not unlikely that we could discover lower - mass planets that we weren't sensitive to in previous ground - based observations of these stars,» Hinkley says.

The flux detected at 0.8 μm is also consistent with that of a planet with mass no greater than a few times that of Jupiter.

The previous record holder for a planet with a measured mass (Kepler - 78b) weighed 70 percent more than Earth.

Working with mass spectrometers, where you can apply physics and chemistry to try to understand rocks from Earth and other planets, brought together everything I wanted to do and to learn about.

What they found through their analyses was that the relatively «dry» inner planets (labeled «b» and «c» on this image) were consistent with having less than 15 percent water by mass (for comparison, Earth is 0.02 percent water by mass).

When Sigurdsson and colleagues analyzed images of the white dwarf from the Hubble Space Telescope, they concluded that the distant, unseen companion is not a low - mass star, as many researchers had thought, but a planet with about 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter.

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.

This long - sought world was announced with great excitement in 2012 as the first Earth - mass planet in the nearest star system to our own, but a new statistical analysis has revealed it to be nothing more than an apparition.

But a new discovery published August 24 in Nature hits closer to home, with an Earth - mass planet in the habitable zone of its star.

Instead the team spotted another possible Earth - mass planet with a 20 - day orbit, but the evidence wasn't strong enough to claim a discovery.

A planet with the same fraction of water as Earth could keep a subsurface ocean liquid if it was 3.5 times Earth's mass.

In combination with mass measurements from the ground, that should provide a better fix on planets» densities.

With a planet's mass and radius in hand, astronomers can calculate its average density, which gives them a handle on what it is made of.

In short order, McArthur and her colleagues reported a planet about 18 times the mass of Earth around 55 Cancri, a star with three other planets, and a team led by Nuno Santos of the University of Lisbon in Portugal discovered a roughly 14 - Earth - mass planet.

Mountains with about as much mass as the planet Saturn can form and persist at each pole, according to the new simulation.

Astronomers believe it formed after a giant planet between 1 and 20 times the mass of Jupiter was scattered out of the main disc by gravitational interactions with other bodies there.

Depending on the mass of the black holes, they could have anywhere from a fraction of a second together (for a black hole the mass of a planet or star) to days or even weeks (for a black hole with the mass of a small galaxy or more).

«With planets, the relationship between mass and radius can tell scientists quite a bit about the chemistry,» Kraus said.

Based on its faintness and its presumed association with the two young stars, Terebey believes her object is a planet with two to three times Jupiter's mass, flung off in a gravitational tug - of - war between the stars.

The new approach would require only estimates of the star's mass and the planet's mass and orbital period — all of which can be easily obtained with Earth - or space - based telescopes.

There are only a dozen known asteroids and dwarf planets with enough mass to boil the oceans (2x10 ^ 18 kg), these include (Vesta 2x10 ^ 20 kg) and Pluto (10 ^ 22 kg), however none of these objects will intersect Earth's orbit and pose a threat to tardigrades.

Luckily, teams of Carnegie scientists including co-authors Steve Shectman, Sharon Wang, Paul Butler, Jeff Crane, and Ian Thompson, have been monitoring GJ 9827 with their Planet Finding Spectrograph (PFS), so they were able to constrain the masses of the three planets with data in hand, rather than having to scramble to get many new observations of GJ 9827.

A month later, follow - up observations with the Lovell radio telescope in Cheshire, UK, revealed periodic variations in the pulsar's signals, indicating the existence of an orbiting companion with the mass of a planet.