How To Use Kepler In A Sentence
- German astronomer Johannes Kepler used these modern logarithms to calculate the orbit of Mars at the start of the 17th century.
- NASA's Kepler spacecraft is on its way to the launch pad and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life.
- Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope has detected its first five exoplanets, or planets beyond our Solar System.
- He proposed using transits of Mercury to determine the distance of the Sun and therefore the scale of the solar system using Kepler's third law.
- An artificial satellite is in the Keplerian orbit of co-rotation above the Earth's equator.
- Newton used Kepler's insights to explore mathematically the dynamics of planetary motion.
- Kepler could not solve the problem but he believed that the densest packing of spheres would be attained if in each layer the centres of the spheres were above the centres of the holes in the layer below.
- One of the facts that plays a large part in the result was known to the old astrologers, viz. that Jupiter and Saturn come into conjunction with a certain triangular symmetry; the whole scheme being called a trigon, and being mentioned several times by Kepler. Pioneers of Science
- The letter was unsigned and the true author of the letter was not revealed publicly until Kepler did so 50 years later.
- He states that geostationary satellites must violate Kepler's first law, because they must have circular orbits when the first law demands that orbits be ellipses.
