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
After all, the observations employed to measure planetary radii cannot differentiate whether the determined size is due to the solid part of the planet alone or an additional dense atmosphere.
From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2024
As a class, such stars are among the largest in the universe, with radii up to 1,500 times that of our sun and masses of up to 40 times larger than our home star.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 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
It was all a question of the angle and radii at which the DNA strands twisted about the central axis.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
