Sentence examples for slightly different orbit from inspiring English sources

If we did find an asteroid headed for Earth, we'd want to nudge it into a slightly different orbit, turning a direct hit into a near miss.

And a blast some distance from an asteroid, designed to shove it into a slightly different orbit, might not work either; the asteroid might soak up the energy like a sponge.

The third satellite (Bravo) is on a slightly different orbit since April 2014 88°° inclination and slightly more than 520 km altitude in September 2014) to allow for a progressive local time separation with respect to Alpha and Charlie.

The new Saturn ring photos come as the Cassini probe moves into a slightly different orbit around its gas giant target, officials with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in an image announcement.

Since Swarm A and Swarm C travel along slightly different orbits, this joint inversion introduces a longitudinal constrain that minimizes the error of correction.

After a transient, we see a synchronous behaviour, i.e. all neurons oscillate periodically with the same period, although the heterogeneity in the I app i means that each neuron follows a slightly different periodic orbit in its own ( V, h ) phase space.

The Moon's longitudinal libration (a back and forth turning, a "headshaking" motion) results from its moving at slightly different speeds at different points in its orbit (in accord with Kepler's second law).

This means that each new lot of dust is shed on a slightly different path.By calculating the comet's orbit, the locations of these trails can be worked out, as can the earth's likelihood of cutting through one.

Instead, the ellipse rotates slowly in space, so that on each orbit the perihelion the point of closest approach to the Sun moves to a slightly different angle.

Because Europa's Jupiter-facing hemispherockscks back and forth during each orbit, by the time the gravitational stresses pick up again they're oriented in a slightly different direction.

Periscope is slightly different.