Sentence examples for planetary crossings from inspiring English sources
By knowing how big the star really is, and the dips in light from the planetary crossings, astronomers can measure the exact size of any planet.
Scattered-near objects are those whose orbits are non-resonant, non-planetary-orbit-crossing and have a Tisserand parameter (relative to Neptune) less than 3. Scattered-extended objects have a Tisserand parameter (relative to Neptune) greater than 3 and have a time-averaged eccentricity greater than 0.2.
Planetary hells keep getting hotter.
For most people, an asteroid impact is something safely in the realm of movie special effects, but for those planetary experts who specialize in detecting Earth-crossing asteroids, the possibility is a fixture of the night sky they scan.
In addition to earlier found variations of the Martian magnetotail thickness as a function of the solar wind ram pressure, succeeding analysis of the magnetotail boundary crossings by Phobos 2 orbiter revealed modulation of magnetopause positions by planetary crustal magnetization.
Other crossings may open.
Lakes, craters, river crossings.
Dr Robin Russell-Jones Chair, Planetary SOS.
More vivid: Planetary meltdown.
2. Bad planetary alignment.
