KBOs can also be shifted into unstable orbits by close passage of massive objects, or through collisions.
There have been few votes more disgraceful than the recent House and Senate passage of massive tax cuts for corporations and the superrich.
The president pleaded for the passage of a massive fiscal stimulus, insisting that "doing nothing is not an option".
That's because according to the theory, gravity is the result of massive objects like stars or planets stretching the fabric of space-time, so the closer a clock is to a massive object, the slower the passage of time.This effect, called time dilation, can be demonstrated by comparing the tick rates of identical clocks that accompany the different observers.
Friday's trading was defined by the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of the massive and incentive-fill revised bailout bill, sending it to President George Bush who is sure to sign in.
Final passage of the massive Republican tax bill around the same time helped swallow up this news, but even without distractions, word of economic and travel restrictions on a few non-Americans probably wouldn't have made many headlines.
Such an upgrade would ensure Malaysia is eligible to be included in fast-track passage of the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that the United States is close to finishing with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.
WASHINGTON — After being derided as a "do-nothing" Congress, the House and Senate moved Friday toward passage of a massive legislative package that overhauls highway and transit programs, salvages an estimated 3 million jobs and spares millions of students from higher interest rates on college loans.
Their concern arises from the fact that while the country suffers from a sputtering economy and a grinding jobs crisis, elected officials are celebrating the passage of a massive deficit-reduction bill almost guaranteed to even further slow the economy and cost jobs.
Indeed, the presence of light throughout the house is even that much more pronounced in the unapologetically bare, bold new space, which Chavez likened to a "massive life sculpture for studying the passage of light between sunrise and sunset".
