Sentence examples for close passages from inspiring English sources

LATHAM: Yes, and it will be at one of the close passages to the Earth, the perigee of the orbit.

However, because of the small sizes of NEAs and the short time they spend close enough to Earth to be seen, it is unusual for such close passages to be observed.

Its next close passage may be many years afterwards.

This includes also the close passage of this dusty object" said Gabriele Ponti of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany.

Comet Hyakutake, long-period comet that, because of its relatively close passage to Earth, was observed as one the brightest comets of the 20th century.

In this paper we study a special instance of ballistic capture dynamics: the case in which the capture orbit about a planet experiences a close passage to one or more of its natural satellites.

"The object was moving about 100 times faster than the 'normal' rate of objects we track as they cross the Earth's orbit, all on account of its very close passage," Binzel explains.

No sooner had he presided over the close passage of a new austerity bill last week, than he was contending with the growing controversy over how much money private banks would contribute by taking on more Greek debt.

The comet was visible after sunset before its close passage around the Sun in early February, but so low in American skies that it was easily obscured by haze or city lights.

According to this hypothesis, the connection with G2 would be just coincidental, and we had been able to detect the variations around the time of the close passage of G2, simply because of the increased frequency of our X-ray monitoring.

At such distances, the orbits of the tiny icy bodies can be disrupted and sent inward by either of two processes: the occasional close passage of a star or giant interstellar molecular cloud near the solar system or the gravitational forces, called disk tides, exerted by the mass of the Galaxy's disk.