"Planetary radius" refers to the measurement of the size or distance from the center to the outer edge of a planet. It tells us how big a planet is, similar to how we measure the distance from the center of a circle to its outer edge.
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Sentences with «planetary radius»
- Slow rotation requires that both the Rossby deformation radius and the Rhines length exceed planetary radius, which occurs for planets with rotation rate > 20 days. (haqqmisra.net)
- We compare the transit duration distribution for different subsets of Kepler planet candidates and discuss tentative trends with planetary radius and multiplicity. (arxiv.org)
- In fact the magnetic dipole is shifted from the center of the planet towards the south rotational pole by as much as one third of the planetary radius. (conservativehome.blogs.com)
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