Example sentences of "[noun pl] around the sun " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more ancient Antarctic specimens provide an opportunity for meteoriticists to compare the types of planetary debris that followed orbits around the Sun and across the Earth 's path half a million years ago , with those colliding with the Earth today . |
| 2 | In Kepler 's interpretation there was even a sense in which the earth remained central : Just as the sun had occupied the central orbit in the sequence radiating out from earth , so now the earth enjoyed that same centrality with respect to orbits around the sun . |
| 3 | After a painstaking analysis of the data , Kepler arrived at his three laws of planetary motion , that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun , that a line joining a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times , and that the square of the period of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun . |
| 4 | Some of these fixed stars do , in fact , appear to change very slightly their positions relative to each other as the earth orbits around the sun : they are not really fixed at all ! |
| 5 | ‘ Planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ is more precise than ‘ Planets move in closed loops around the sun ’ , and is consequently more falsifiable . |
| 6 | The law , ‘ All planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ , is scientific because it claims that planets in fact move in ellipses and rules out orbits that are square or oval . |
| 7 | ‘ Planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ is more precise than ‘ Planets move in closed loops around the sun ’ , and is consequently more falsifiable . |
| 8 | For solar flares , a system of early warning satellites around the Sun could detect the first sign of trouble . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if there were more than three spatial dimensions , the orbits of planets around the sun or electrons around a nucleus would be unstable and they would tend to spiral inward . |