Sentence examples for inferior conjunction from inspiring English sources

An inferior planet (a planet whose orbit is interior to Earth's orbit) is farthest from Earth near the time of superior conjunction and closest to Earth near the time of inferior conjunction.

An inferior conjunction occurs when the planet passes approximately between Earth and Sun; if it passes exactly between them, moving across the Sun's face as seen from Earth, it is said to be in transit.

However, that orbit is tilted at 7° to that of the Earth, so Mercury usually sweeps unseen above or below the Sun when it is closest, at its so-called inferior conjunction.

CARPENTER1 noted in 1966 that the radar observations of the rotation period of Venus gave a figure remarkably close to one at which Venus would present the same aspect to the Earth at each inferior conjunction.

A transit of Mercury or Venus across the face of the Sun, as seen from Earth, occurs at inferior conjunction, when the planet lies between the Sun and Earth.

Each planet's orbit intersects the ecliptic plane in two points called nodes; if inferior conjunction occurs at a time when the planet is near a node, a transit of the Sun can occur.

The initial onsets of these "invasions" occurred on average 59 ± 17 days following near-dated geomagnetic storms to Venus inferior conjunctions.

The numbers of subchannels with optimal SNRs and subchannels with inferior SNRs increased in conjunction with the standard deviation of the SNR.

Right hemisphere regions of interest were derived from the conjunction of right inferior frontal gyrus activation during song for both control and autistic groups.

For example, relative to healthy young adults, healthy older adults demonstrating successful probabilistic association learning showed decreased prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus activation in conjunction with increased inferior parietal cortex (iPARC) activation (Fera et al. 2005).

The periodic conjunction of the first inferior olive pulse arriving via the parallel fibres and the next inferior olive pulse arriving via the climbing fibres can manifest as an anticipatory pause of the Purkinje cell at the expected time of the next inferior olive pulse (i.e. classical delayed conditioning in response to an inferior olive pulse).