Sentences with phrase «wobbles of»

Curry goes further that this, making explicit the suggestion that the Stadium Wave is a potential BNO responsible for the global wobbles of the last 100 years (which are predomanently a NH phenomenon).

The instrument detects tiny wobbles of nearby stars caused by the gravitational pull of planets orbiting those stars - a sensitive and challenging phenomenon to measure.

The wobbles of one of Saturn's smallest moons hint at something unusual beneath the surface — perhaps an ocean.

Breakthrough is also reportedly investigating a small space mission of its own, a telescope devoted to watching for wobbles of Alpha Centauri A and B rather than directly imaging planets.

Interestingly, even players who reported keeping their heads stock still showed improvements when the virtual reality system was incorporating the smallest wobbles of their heads into the scene they were seeing.

Conventionally, astronomers measure the mass of an exoplanet by measuring the tiny wobbles of the parent star induced by the planet's gravity.

Measuring slight wobbles of the planet's spin axis could reveal details of the world's internal structure, but the rover needs to be stationary to get precise measurements.

Henry Schein, Inc.: «Stock's been wobbling of late, but I have a total belief.

Astronomers saw one transit in 1999 for a Jupiter - size planet originally found via the wobbling of its star (ScienceNOW, 30 November 1999).

The two main methods — measuring the wobble of stars caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet and measuring the periodic dimming of a star as a planet passes in front — both favor big planets in close orbits.

SIM would easily be able to spot the wobble of our sun caused by Jupiter from a distance of 30 light - years — and there are about 400 stars within that distance of Earth.

The wobbling of the BCGs could only be analysed as the galaxy clusters studied also act as gravitational lenses.

Sahai and his colleagues suggest that due to the back - and - forth wobble of the jet direction, the blobs alternate between passing behind and in front of V Hydrae.

One key part of follow - up observations is measuring a planet's mass, which must be found by a different method, such as detecting the back - and - forth wobble of a parent star caused by the planet's mass as it orbits.

The 25,800 - year wobble of Earth's axis allows a procession of stars to take turns being polestar.

The researchers found that the wobble of the Earth Tilt has a periodicity of about 33,000 years, but that within that time span, there is another seesaw of wobble every 1.2 million years.

«NuSTAR confirmed the wobbling of the iron line, and additionally saw a feature in the spectrum called a «reflection hump» that added evidence for precession.»

In the 6 years since the tiny wobbling of a distant star betrayed the presence of the first extrasolar planet, several teams had methodically brought the exoplanet count to 38.

Now they can detect a wobble of a celestial body as slow as three meters per second, about the speed of a bicycle in motion.

Along with Alycia Weinberger and Ian Thompson, Alan Boss has been running the Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search (CAPS) program, which searches for extrasolar planets by the astrometric method, where the planet's presence is detected indirectly through the wobble of the host star around the center of mass of the system.

The team discovered the new planets by detecting the wobble of the star HD 7924 as the planets orbited and pulled on the star gravitationally.

For example, the supercomputer could pick up the gentle tug of a moon in the wobble of a planet.

This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada - Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet.

Following the wobble of Assassin's Creed, Justin Kurzel returns with the real - life story of a team of the Pakistani militants Lashkar - e-Taiba who killed 31 people in a terrorist attack at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai in 2008.

Not even a wobble of the knees!

It can also result in a wobbling of the steering wheel or of the entire vehicle.

Other signs can be weakness, confusion, wobbly gait, frothing or drooling, wobbling of the head, and even seizures and convolutions.

The only issue that I can see is some wobbling of the screen which is indicative of some screen tear.

See the excellent first show by Brent Wadden, a young Canadian - born painter who has set aside his brushes and taken up weaving, making thick rug - like abstractions whose jagged, interlocking shapes have the wobble of Op Art except softened by vagaries of color, texture and edge.

Other issues are cycles of the sun, and perhaps even minor changes in our orbit or wobble of the earth.

Re my: (solar or lunar - driven precession itself can't (approximately) happen at those times when the sun or moon cross the equatorial plane)... refering specifically to the component of precession that is wobbling of the Earth's angular momentum vector in an inertial reference frame; another component comes from shifting of the semimajor axis.

Chandler Wobble of the Poles as Part of the Nutation of the Atmosphere — Ocean — Earth System by N. S. Sidorenkov Astronomy Reports, Vol.

The study posits that one of the reasons for less than perfect fit of sunspot and irradiance data with temperature is that the Sun actually works on a 21 year cycle when the sunspot cycle is combined with the cyclical wobble of the Suns motion through space.

Boiled down to simplest terms, they consist of a 100,000 - year cycle in the eccentricity of Earth's orbit, similar to the big 405,000 - year swing; a 41,000 - year cycle in the tilt of Earth's axis relative to its orbit around the Sun; and a 21,000 - year cycle caused by a wobble of the planet's axis.

However, the gravitational wobbling of the Sun would be totally irrilevant, as you say, only if the «gravitational» forces were the only forces that exist in nature, which is not the case because there are also electric / magnetic forces too and cosmic rays caming from the galaxy that cross the solar system.

The wobbling of the planet changed how the Sun warmed the Earth periodically, which appears to have triggered complex feedbacks that may have released carbon dioxide from the ocean or other sinks, which, in turn, further increased the planet's temperature.

He has proven with his wobbling of the planet theory; why some places indicates warmer than is today; others colder than is today.

The Earth's orbit grows slowly more and less elliptical, even as the angle of the planet's axial tilt, and the wobble of the poles as the planet spins (much like what you see with a spinning top), also change slightly over thousands of years.

Not exact matches

After about 15 seconds of this, Larry would get up, wobble a bit, and leave the store.

SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.

But while investors» faith in lots of high - flyers is wobbling, they're convinced that these golden names deserve the tiniest of haircuts.

Remember the implosion of Lehman Bros. in 2008 when, across the planet, bank foundations wobbled?

What did occur was an unsettling wobble and very subtle push from behind — the weight of the trailer at high speed nudging our car along — if we passed much over 60 mph.

The reviewers found that they could put hot trays of cookies on each rack, and it didn't wobble.

And yet that's how much the value of a Starwood Preferred Guest point can wobble.

Expecting one more rate hike at best, the Bank of Canada is looking past near - term wobbles and settling...

A squadron of activists offer support, but Unilever's earnings wobble hints at brittle share prices.

That first iteration of stock market wobbles (assuming it's not also the last) was certainly sufficient to give investors in general the jitters.

Expecting one more rate hike at best, the Bank of Canada is looking past near - term wobbles and settling in on long - term view.

The company has been up - and - down recently, with a string of mixed earnings and botched merger talks with CBS causing the stock to wobble, but the company's recent Q2 earnings release shows a media giant that is on solid footing.