radii
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PSP uses a series of Venus flyby's to gradually reduce its perihelion from 36 solar radii in 2018 to 9.5 in 2025.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024
Astronomers from Germany and Switzerland have uncovered evidence of how the enigmatic gap in the size distribution of exoplanets at around two Earth radii emerges.
From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2024
For comparison, the main part of Saturn's rings sits at just three planetary radii from the gas giant.
From Scientific American • Feb. 11, 2023
In simulations, the researchers included an object about the size of Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon, orbiting about 43 Saturn radii out—between the orbits of Titan and Iapetus.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 14, 2022
She turned back around, which took a moment because ponies do not have quick turning radii.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
