Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

tug

French translation:

attraction

Added to glossary by Thierry Darlis
Jul 19, 2017 00:11
6 yrs ago
English term

tug

English to French Science Astronomy & Space
- The light comes down
from the telescope up here,
strikes that mirror, it's sent sideways
into this room here, which
contains the spectrograph,
and we put the hydrogen fluoride tube
into the telescope beam
right here so that the light
went through it, and
into the spectrograph.
- [Voiceover] Walker,
Yang, and Bruce Campbell
had the revolutionary idea
that passing the star's light
through a gas would build a sort of ruler
into every light measurement,
making it possible
to see much smaller color
changes from the star's wobble.
They decided to test the theory
by measuring Jupiter's tug on our sun.
Proposed translations (French)
4 +5 attraction
Change log

Jul 19, 2017 06:21: M.A.B. changed "Field" from "Other" to "Science"

Discussion

M.A.B. Jul 19, 2017:
See my comment to "yank". The same effect is in the Solar System, and Jupiter "pulls" the Sun the most of all the planets.

Proposed translations

+5
4 hrs
Selected

attraction

"gravitational tug"
Peer comment(s):

agree M.A.B.
1 hr
Thanks!
agree GILLES MEUNIER
2 hrs
Merci, Gilou !
agree Tony M
4 hrs
Thanks, Tony!
agree HERBET Abel : mais oui
4 hrs
Merci, Abel !
agree Annie Rigler
5 hrs
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