Sentence examples for terrestrial object from inspiring English sources

One research team recently reported the structural analysis of a small, dazzlingly blue fruit from the African Pollia condensata plant that may well be the brightest terrestrial object in nature.

This problem should not be associated with that of atmospheric seeing, which may introduce a disturbance to the image because of fluctuating air currents in the path of the light from a celestial or terrestrial object.

In one case, the time of exposure, like the removal of rock by a landslide, can be dated by the presence of the rare beryllium-10 (10Be) isotope formed in the newly exposed surface of a terrestrial object or meteoroidal fragment by cosmic-ray bombardment.

The rules of pictorial perspective include the implication that the higher the base of a terrestrial object appears in a picture, the farther away it is along the ground (Gibson, 1950), and thus that "height in the field" is a pictorial cue to distance that represents proximity to the horizon (see Sedgwick, 1980).

(Among their more terrestrial objects are oversize strands of worry beads and a lovely wooden backgammon set).

It's the period that begins about 30 minutes before sunrise, when the sun is six degrees below the horizon, and terrestrial objects can be clearly distinguished.

Terrestrial objects are confined by the Earth's gravitational field.

Further, Israeli uses much of al-Kindi's terminology for both astronomical and terrestrial objects.

Nearly all examples of Renaissance magic involved the use of astrological influences since terrestrial objects were believed to be affected by affinities and antipathies with specific celestial bodies.

This result successfully refutes one simple anti-Copernican argument, by showing that the Earth can move without superadding motion to terrestrial objects otherwise in motion (which superaddition, opponents of Copernicanism correctly maintained, would generate much havoc in the motion of terrestrial objects).

The theory was regarded as superior to Newton's theory of universal gravitation since it did not posit a mysterious, occult quality (gravity) as the cause of the planetary orbits or the free-fall of terrestrial objects.