Sentence examples for planet rotation from inspiring English sources

They demonstrated that a slow rotating Earth-like planet (rotation speed = 1 rotation/243 days), located at a distance of 0.7 AU away from a Sun-like star, would be habitable.

A second study headed by Beth Biller of the University of Edinburgh went to greater depths, examining brighter and darker clouds as the planet rotated (each rotation takes four hours) and using their observations to recreate what happens at different layers of the atmosphere.

If they formed at the same time as the planets, from the spinning nebular disk, their orbits would be nearly circular and in the same direction as the planets' rotation, like the "regular" moons.

Many orbit in retrograde fashion, in a direction opposite to their planets' rotations.

If a moon is revolving in the same direction as the planet's rotation and the planet is rotating faster than the orbital period of the moon, the bulge will constantly be pulled ahead of the moon.

Venusian winds move at up to 60 times the speed of the planet's rotation, whereas Earth's fastest winds are only 10 20% rotation speed.

Winds move at up to 60 times the speed of the planet's rotation, while Earth's fastest winds are only 10% to 20% rotation speed.

A different scenario occurs when the moon is either revolving around the primary faster than the primary rotates, or is revolving in the direction opposite the planet's rotation.

Earth's magnetic field is thought to be the result of currents related to the planet's rotation.

That quake released so much energy it shortened the Earth's day by a fraction of a second, by changing the planet's rotation.

By the time the volcanoes got large enough to affect the planet's rotation, they were on their way to dormancy.