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  • Thumbnail for Planetary migration
    Type III migration), tidal migration, planetesimal-driven migration, gravitational scattering, and Kozai cycles and tidal friction. This list of types is not...
    40 KB (5,112 words) - 16:20, 18 July 2024
  • could orbit Uranus. Gravitational scattering is the most popular, stating that such asteroids (or comets) could have been gravitationally pulled by the other...
    3 KB (240 words) - 04:28, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scattered disc
    8×109 mi). These extreme orbits are thought to be the result of gravitational "scattering" by the gas giants, and the objects continue to be subject to...
    38 KB (4,384 words) - 05:32, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cosmic microwave background
    hydrogen. Unlike the plasma, these atoms could not scatter thermal radiation by Thomson scattering, and so the universe became transparent. Known as the...
    108 KB (13,244 words) - 10:20, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gravitational-wave observatory
    A gravitational-wave detector (used in a gravitational-wave observatory) is any device designed to measure tiny distortions of spacetime called gravitational...
    36 KB (4,118 words) - 13:45, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Venus trojan
    have little gravitational effect on Venus, which means trojans in Venus’s Lagrange points could’ve been put there by gravitational scattering, stating that...
    3 KB (266 words) - 22:04, 2 March 2024
  • that gravitational waves result from his general theory of relativity as ripples in spacetime. Gravitational waves transport energy as gravitational radiation...
    104 KB (12,639 words) - 12:39, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Extreme trans-Neptunian object
    regular scattered disc objects, they were likely formed as result of gravitational scattering by Neptune and still interact with the giant planets. The detached...
    30 KB (2,333 words) - 00:07, 29 July 2024
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    Mass (redirect from Gravitational mass)
    gravitational mass determines the strength of the gravitational field generated by an object. Passive gravitational mass measures the gravitational force...
    76 KB (10,141 words) - 17:56, 9 April 2024
  • total scattering cross sections are among the most important measurable quantities in nuclear, atomic, and particle physics. With light scattering off of...
    36 KB (5,772 words) - 23:50, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar System
    biases or just sheer coincidence. The Sun's gravitational field is estimated to dominate the gravitational forces of surrounding stars out to about two...
    220 KB (21,683 words) - 17:32, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gravitational-wave astronomy
    Gravitational-wave astronomy is a subfield of astronomy concerned with the detection and study of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources...
    45 KB (4,835 words) - 23:27, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nebular hypothesis
    thin enough to fragment due to gravitational instability. This may limit the formation of planetesimals via gravitational instabilities to specific locations...
    75 KB (9,132 words) - 11:31, 29 July 2024
  • least 1.5 AU in 10 million years), and are thus undergoing gravitational scattering. Scattering objects are easier to detect than other trans-Neptunian objects...
    40 KB (3,957 words) - 10:03, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Redshift
    give rise to the relativistic Doppler effect, and gravitational potentials, which gravitationally redshift escaping radiation. All sufficiently distant...
    86 KB (9,205 words) - 14:38, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Planetary habitability
    primordial asteroid belt supplied water to the Earth due to the gravitational scattering of Jupiter and, to a lesser extent, Saturn. Thus, while the gas...
    111 KB (13,145 words) - 20:06, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electron scattering
    electron scattering occurs at all and the beam passes straight through. Single scattering: when an electron is scattered just once. Plural scattering: when...
    46 KB (5,120 words) - 10:19, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Galaxy groups and clusters
    part of the large-scale structure of the Universe. In models for the gravitational formation of structure with cold dark matter, the smallest structures...
    13 KB (1,471 words) - 22:25, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quaoar
    belt objects such as Quaoar are thought to have resulted from gravitational scattering by Neptune during its outward migration in the early Solar System...
    77 KB (6,368 words) - 07:18, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Post-Minkowskian expansion
    that of light) and the gravitational constant, in the post-Minkowskian case the developments are based only on the gravitational constant, allowing analysis...
    4 KB (238 words) - 16:43, 3 February 2024
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