gravitationally
AmericanOther Word Forms
- antigravitationally adverb
- non-gravitationally adverb
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Because they are gravitationally linked, any change to one of them can influence the motion of the other.
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"To lose the kind of mass we saw in just the last few years… it almost certainly requires two stars gravitationally bound to each other," he explained.
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Instead, it appears to be gravitationally bound to a second object that orbits the star far from its center.
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The two are gravitationally bound companions destined to unleash a fiery blast into the cosmos.
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Robertson explained that when planets are orbiting close to one another, they can pull on each other gravitationally.
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