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Why wouldn't an accretion disk orbiting a giant star get as hot as an accretion disk orbiting a compact object?
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An accretion disk is heated by friction and compression, both of which are greater for material falling into a compact object as the material is forced into a smaller space. The hottest accretion disks would be found around black holes.
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When a object goes around another object?
It is said to be orbiting the central object.
Can a moon have moons?
Yes. Think of it like this, and object, orbiting an object, orbiting an object, orbiting an object. If Earth can orbit the sun with the moon still orbiting the Earth, then what keeps a moon from orbiting our moon? Size and distance. Yes, in theory, but very unlikely to be a stable system.
What is a small spherical object that orbiting the sun?
It sounds like a planet to me.
Movement of one object in its object in its orbit around another object in space?
Well it is orbiting and it is caused by gravity, centripetal and centrifugal forces
How does accretion heat a planet?
During accretion, any object falling towards a planet will acquire a velocity because of the gravitational attraction from the planet. So, the object will have a kinetic energy due to its motion. During the the collision the kinetic energy is converted to heat energy, and the remain of this heat is actually heating the planet.
What would happen to an orbiting object if gravity was decreased?
First the object get faraway more and more, and step by step when it is getting far, it is not more orbiting, so we cannot say that it is a orbiting object now,but it is wandering object.
When an object moves around another object it is?
Orbiting
What is path an object follows when orbiting another object?
Orbit
What is a small object orbiting a larger object called?
a satellite
When a object goes around another object?
It is said to be orbiting the central object.
An object moving around another object in space is doing what?
orbiting
When an object mvoes in a circle?
orbiting the sun
What is an artificial object orbiting the sun?
raditon
Can a moon have moons?
Yes. Think of it like this, and object, orbiting an object, orbiting an object, orbiting an object. If Earth can orbit the sun with the moon still orbiting the Earth, then what keeps a moon from orbiting our moon? Size and distance. Yes, in theory, but very unlikely to be a stable system.
What is an object that travels around an object in space?
An orbiting body is know as a satellite.
Why does a satellite in orbit around the earth not fall into the earth?
Anything in "orbit" is falling into the object that its orbiting ... and constantly missing. Because by the time the (orbiting) object has fallen far enough to hit ... the object it is orbiting has moved far enough so that they miss each other.
What The path followed by an object in space as it goes around another object?
The object is orbiting round the other object.
