Sentences with phrase «like other comets»

Like other comets of its type, PANSTARRS is thought to have originated in the Oort Cloud, a vast region containing millions of comets located more than two light years from the Sun.

Not exact matches

Just think about the size of the comet that would have to create something like that, not to mention all the other consequences that would arise from a massive impact of that nature (namely destruction of almost all life on earth except for deep, deep sea creatures).

That interpretation left many details unclear, though, including how comets like ISON got tossed all the way out to the Oort Cloud while others were sent crashing into Earth.

Evidence for such an origin might be bolstered if scientists find signs of other materials known to be present in comets, like carbon - based compounds called organics.

With the help of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German - led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting each other and exhibiting comet - like features, including a bright coma and a long tail.

The orbit calculations revealed beyond any doubt that this body did not originate from inside the Solar System, like all other asteroids or comets ever observed, but instead had come from interstellar space.

Others orbit their stars backwards, have strange and unexpected compositions, are puffed up like marshmallows, or shed tails like comets.

You've done these vulcanoid surveys and studies of other asteroids, meteors, and comets from the backseat of a high - performance aircraft, like a WB - 57 or a F / A -18 Hornet fighter jet.

Comets, like meteorites, are known to carry water and other volatiles, but most comets formed in the far reaches of the solar system in a formation called the Oort Cloud.

Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who collaborates with Stern on New Horizons, goes the other way and speaks of Pluto being «in some respects like a giant comet.»

The collection was compiled by renowned French astronomer Charles Messier to help colleagues differentiate wandering comets from other objects, like nebulae.

Soon other substances, including water vapor, will begin pouring out, revealing their presence in the spectrum of light from the comet to instruments on the ground and those, like Spitzer, in space.

Tim Spahr directs the Minor Planet Center, the global clearinghouse for all information about asteroids, comets and other relatively small bodies like moons.

American - born, Paris - based Cruces takes up the Belgian gallery's project room for Sift, his eleventh solo show, and gives little away as to its nature other than a press release that comes in the form of ten random T / F statements, presenting maybe - facts like «All water on Earth originated purely from comets.