Sentence examples for larger orbit from inspiring English sources

BY the millionth pass, however, the Earth would have a 50percentt larger orbit.

One reason for this is that Algol turns out to be a triple system with a third star in a much larger orbit.

It could be engulfed by the Sun, or it might get pushed out into a larger orbit and freeze as the Sun expands.

Conversely, when the electron jumps to a larger orbit, it must absorb a quantum of light equal in energy to the difference in orbits.

The grains are blown into a larger orbit than the comet nucleus, and that results in their slowing because of the laws of planetary motion, causing them to lag behind the nucleus.

Unless an atom is subjected to some external influence, it will be in the state of lowest energy (ground state) in which the electrons systematically fill all the orbits from those nearest the nucleus outward to some larger orbit containing the outermost (valence) electrons.

In the orbital transition phase, the electrons jump to larger orbits, aiming for orbits with higher energy levels (i.e., better fitness value).

However, the Roman philosopher Seneca thought that comets were like the planets, though in much larger orbits.

For each revolution, a carefully timed electric field gives the particles additional kinetic energy, which makes them travel in increasingly larger orbits.

Halley's Comet has an orbit that, reaching past Neptune, is small enough to have been well charted, but its flashy display is more like that of comets with much larger orbits and less frequent appearances.

Early this year, after decades of growth, the federal catalog of detectable objects (four inches wide or larger) orbiting Earth reached 10,000, including dead satellites, old rocket engines and junkyards of whirling debris left over from chance explosions and weapon tests.