Sentence examples for orbital zone from inspiring English sources

Most astronomers counter this opinion by saying that, far from not having cleared their orbits, the major planets completely control the orbits of the other bodies within their orbital zone.

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union decided upon a definition of a "planet --defined as a round object, orbiting the sun that is gravitationally dominant within its own orbital zone.

The reflector has to be positioned in what scientists call the 'terminator', the orbital zone between day and night.

Margot said the definition worked because it relied on dynamics and dominance: "A planet has to be able to clear its orbital zone" – be the dominant player in its neighborhood – "and if you look at that aspect in the solar system there are eight bodies that can very clearly do that.

Soter went on to propose a parameter he called the planetary discriminant, designated with the symbol µ (mu), that represents an experimental measure of the actual degree of cleanliness of the orbital zone (where µ is calculated by dividing the mass of the candidate body by the total mass of the other objects that share its orbital zone), where µ > 100 is deemed to be cleared.

A smaller rocket has reached the lower edge of outer space – still far below the orbital zones reached by SpaceX missions.

Notably, Alan Stern, the lead scientist on NASA's robotic mission to Pluto, has contended that Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune have not fully cleared their orbital zones, just like Pluto.

Thus, the planetary model of the atom was discarded in favor of one that described atomic orbital zones around the nucleus where a given electron is most likely to be observed.

For each stimulation site, an average across the single series of stimuli was obtained for the right hand and right supra-orbital zone.

These show improved nesting of bands with similar orbital character (dxy) at zone corner.

Habitable zone, the orbital region around a star in which an Earth-like planet can possess liquid water on its surface and possibly support life.