From the size of this drop, they can deduce the diameter of the planet.
Scientists made the discovery first by pinpointing their target through infrared images from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, and later using the Very Large Telescope to deduce that the object was both too small to be a star as well as hot and young enough (752F and under 120 million years old) to fit the behavior of a planet orphaned early into its existence.
These are able to measure the spectrum of the light reflected from a cloud so accurately that Dr Rosenfeld could deduce the average size of its water droplets from the amount of light that they reflected.
And one day, billions of years in the future, astronomers from another world may find similar evidence that enables them to deduce the destruction of Earth.
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Conner tracks down clues that let him deduce the name of the crooked company.
"I think you can deduce the likely result having regard for the large sums of money involved, " he said.
Puny humans can quickly deduce the direction of a sound and assess its significance, while also ignoring unimportant background noise.
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His subject was why certain videos go viral, and whether it was possible to study the data and deduce techniques that all producers can use to increase traffic.
Can astronomers deduce, from the chemical composition of the leftover stars, how big it was?
Without such information, Mr. Oster might have developed a general theory, but he would not have had any way to deduce which of the possible permutations actually exist on earth.
The one thing we can unequivocally deduce in this world of hoax girlfriends and doping gone wild is that father Jack Harbaugh instilled considerable football acumen and chutzpah into his sons.
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The reasons I will attempt to deduce without great mental energy: once a donor realizes that his or her archive has financial value, he or she might be less likely to donate.
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At least if one is to deduce an answer based on the NHL rules remaining as is.
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They found that, from the EEG signals alone, they could deduce which movement this patient had been instructed to imagine with 100% accuracy.
Whether this process will make up for the coming reductions in entitlement payments is impossible to deduce right now.
CMB, it is possible to deduce how far away they are, and thus how old the universe is.
The challenge is to develop software that "understands" what objects are in order to deduce how they can be used.
This was even more so the case a while back when points were in 500 increments, and it was even harder to deduce what they actually cost in real world money.
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In 2009, the UK Border Agency launched a pilot scheme under which DNA from asylum seekers would be analysed in an effort to deduce their true nationality and curb bogus asylum claims.
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