Example sentences of "[noun sg] around the earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is its sidereal orbital period around the Earth ? |
| 2 | He denied the Aristotelian claim that all motion requires a cause and in its place proposed a circular law of inertia , according to which a moving object subject to no forces will move indefinitely in a circle around the earth at uniform speed . |
| 3 | They calculated the distance around the earth , then took a fraction of this measurement as their unit of length and called it a metre . |
| 4 | The synchronous rotation of the Moon around the Earth is one of several consequences of tidal interactions between the Earth and the Moon , ocean tides being a more familiar example . |
| 5 | The physical librations arise because the path of the Moon around the Earth is not perfectly circular . |
| 6 | Now can you imagine a circumstance where the moon in it 's journey around the earth the moon is directly in the way of the sun yes ? |
| 7 | Scientists of the time were bound by Aristotle 's philosophy , which taught that the Moon was an immaculate heavenly body travelling in its own crystalline sphere around the Earth . |
| 8 | An object held at the top of a tower and sharing with the tower a circular motion around the earth 's centre will continue in that motion , along with the tower , after it is dropped and will consequently strike the ground at the foot of the tower , consistent with experience . |
| 9 | Because of the way that the Moon moves in its orbit around the Earth , its place of rising on the horizon varies a little , each night moving a tiny amount further north until its position of rising seems to come to a halt ( a standstill ) before moving back southwards again . |
| 10 | Astronomically , this is because as the Earth moves around on its axis every 24 hours , the Moon during the day and night moves through one-thirtieth of its orbit around the Earth . |
| 11 | Capture is made considerably easier if the Moon was captured in small pieces , because interactions between them , or between circum-Earth gases and such pieces would readily place some of them in orbit around the Earth . |
| 12 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 13 | So the only place to put such a black hole , in which one might use the energy that it emitted , would be in orbit around the earth — and the only way that one could get it to orbit the earth would be to attract it there by towing a large mass in front of it , rather like a carrot in front of a donkey . |
| 14 | One modern example is a space capsule in orbit around the earth ; another is a capsule falling radially toward the Earth . |
| 15 | As well as letting radiation in , both CFC 's and carbon dioxide act like a blanket around the earth keeping solar radiation close to the surface instead of escaping into space . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , in the play , Puck the fairy is supposed to say he 'll put a girdle around the earth in forty minutes — ’ |
| 17 | The zones of vegetation around the earth were determined by temperature and rainfall , and within each zone the plants all possessed similar adaptations to the conditions . |
| 18 | The eccentricity of the material around the Earth is the result of the oblique viewpoint . |
| 19 | The Moon is in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and therefore within the limitations imposed by its orbit always shows much the same face to the Earth . |
| 20 | Moreover , if the Moon was already in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and if there was more spare material between the Earth and the Moon than beyond the Moon , then the rather greater number of large basins on the near side than on the far side can be explained . |