Sentence examples for massive enough for from inspiring English sources

Vesta's size (it is around 520km in diameter) and density make it massive enough for its gravity to keep it roughly spherical, like a proper planet.

For macroscopic systems i.e., those composed of objects massive enough for their atomic structure to be discounted in the analysis of their behaviour the conservation law for energy assumes a different aspect.

If the local LW flux is high enough, the formation of H2 in minihalos may be suppressed until the halo has become massive enough for Ly-α cooling to become important (Omukai 2001; Bromm and Loeb 2003a; Volonteri and Rees 2005; Spaans and Silk 2006; Schleicher et al. 2010b; Johnson et al. 2013c).

Astronomers announced the results on 17 September at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Astronomers had long debated whether globular clusters were massive enough for black holes to form, either when the clusters condensed in the early universe or when gas and stars accumulated at their cores.

He says "this is an exciting observation," but notes that even a slight error in the age determination--related to its brightness, from which its mass can be inferred--could push the mass of the object high enough to make it a brown dwarf: a "failed star" larger than a planet but not massive enough for hydrogen fusion to occur in the core.

About five years ago, he realized that the story was massive enough for a documentary, so he started recording footage.

If cores are massive enough they could remain compressed for billions of years despite losing the atmospheric mass.

What's more, NGC 6811 is small but old, about a billion years old – meaning it must have been massive enough early in its history for its gravity to keep it together, preventing the cluster from dissipating entirely.

When they have become massive enough, they are either slammed into stationary targets or (for extra energy) collided head-on.

Worse, while neutrinos are invisible enough to fit the bill, they are not massive enough, and therefore they don't clump together enough, so can only account for a tiny fraction of the total dark matter.

In 1964, Fred Whipple, who popularised the famous "dirty snowball" hypothesis for cometary structure, thought that a "comet belt" might be massive enough to cause the purported discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus that had sparked the search for Planet X, or, at the very least, massive enough to affect the orbits of known comets.