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  • of most or all comets entering the inner solar system (some short-period ... falls of comets onto the Earth that caused mass extinction of life on Earth ...
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  • Typically, giant stars have radii between 10 and 100 solar radii and ... the main sequence. A star whose initial mass is less than approximately ...
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  • into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse but also observable ... 106 kelvin.M.J. Aschwanden, Physics of the Solar Corona. An Introduction ...
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  • the vast majority of stars and have a mass of less than one-half that ... Red dwarfs are stars with very low mass, generally no more than 40 ...
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  • quot; is often used as a synonym for "mass," the two are fundamentally ... Recognition of the difference between weight and mass is a relatively ...
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  • The solar wind is a stream of charged particles — a plasma — ejected ... The solar wind creates the heliosphere, a vast bubble in the interstellar ...
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  • planets and many previously unobserved Solar System objects. Also, it ... of their mutual orbit around the center of mass of the system. NASA's ...
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  • A typical neutron star has a mass between 1.35 and 2.1 solar masses ... equivalence formula E = mc²) is one solar mass. It is ultimately this ...
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  • There are 240 known moons within the solar system, including 163 orbiting ... system is unusual in that the center of mass lies in open space between ...
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  • occurs in a stellar system such as the Solar System, the celestial bodies ... is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's ...
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  • of planets and other objects in the Solar System, relative to the Earth ... the Sun at which a particle of negligible mass, in an unperturbed circular ...
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  • of energy. Imagine that a spaceship of mass m is at a distance r from ... Escape velocity is independent of the mass of the escaping object ...
    18 KB (2,947 words) - 07:51, 7 September 2023
  • and other objects similar to those in the Solar System. ... is the final stage of the life of a low-mass star, such as our Sun. Stars ...
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  • In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a ... In the case of a rigid body, the position of its center of mass is ...
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  • phases. The source of energy is primarily solar radiation. Evaporation is ... The total amount, or mass, of water in the water cycle remains essentially ...
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  • space between them. This matter has greater mass than that of the galaxies ... of dark matter that may have 10 times more mass than the total mass of the ...
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  • The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron ... M☉=1.989•1030 kg is the standard solar mass.[http://vizier.u-strasbg ...
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  • other planets—are exposed to galactic and solar cosmic rays; irradiation ... hydrogen, helium, and other rare gases; solar flare tracks; and accreted ...
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  • which is generally the center of mass of the system. The point of ... commonly used for orbits of planets in the Solar System, but the same terms ...
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  • Mass, in classical mechanics, is the measure of an object's resistance ... three subtly differentiated types of mass, which are important precisely ...
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