Sentence examples for make close approaches from inspiring English sources

The shorter orbital duration will give scientists more opportunities -- 44 are planned -- to make close approaches to Titan.

Because it can make close approaches to those two giant planets, the orbit is unstable on a time span of several million years.

The orbital characteristics of NEAs mean that some of those objects make close approaches to Earth and occasionally collide with it.

When this is the case, a given ring particle will always make close approaches to the moon at the same points in its orbit, and gravitational perturbations to the particle's orbit will build up over time, eventually forcing the particle out of precise resonance.

Hyperion probably formed in a stable orbital island, whereas the massive Titan absorbed or ejected bodies that made close approaches.

During this period Galileo gathered a large amount of information about the Jovian system, making close approaches to all of the four large Galilean moons and finding evidence for thin atmospheres on three of them, as well as the possibility of liquid water beneath their surfaces.

Over the next four years, Cassini is to make 44 close approaches to Titan.

"We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids — sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth," Slooh's technical and research director, Paul Cox said in a statement.

They said the American plane was flying straight and flat on auto-pilot when the Chinese plane made three close approaches, coming as near as 3 to 5 feet.

The spacecraft made three close approaches to Mercury, the closest of which took it to within 327 km of the surface.

The forecasters then stated that Franklin could "attain and maintain hurricane strength" and make a close approach to Bermuda.