gravitationally
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"And on the route, it encounters that instability zone around binaries, where three-body effects kick into place and gravitationally clear out the zone."
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026
The two are gravitationally bound companions destined to unleash a fiery blast into the cosmos.
From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2024
And then the third condition was—and this is the one designed to eliminate bodies like Pluto—it has to gravitationally dominate its orbit in order to clear the neighborhood of its own orbit from other bodies.
From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024
Precisely mapping the gravitationally lensed arcs of light and mirror images that surround Abell 3827 allows scientists to weigh the cluster and determine where and how much dark matter it holds.
From Scientific American • Oct. 11, 2023
The Earth gravitationally attracts us with a certain force, which if we are falling we experience as an acceleration.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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