Sentences with phrase «active comet»

If the orbits of these bodies are disturbed — by a passing star, for example — they return to paths close to the planets of the solar system and can become active comets.

And ices can be investigated, through their solid - state absorption bands, in a variety of objects - from active comets to satellites and TNOs.

[116] Such ideas also apply to the close approach of Alpha Centauri or other stars to the Solar System, when in the distant future of our Oort Cloud may be disrupted enough to see increased numbers of active comets.

This allows it to study a variety of astronomical objects, such as the molecular gas in planetary nebulae, molecules on active comets, the heating mechanisms of red giants and the afterglows of gamma - ray bursts.

Although 2003 EH1 now resembles an asteroid, Jenniskens thinks it was an active comet that disintegrated about 500 years ago, leaving behind a small and mostly inactive nugget, along with a dense trail of dust.

(4) Does the «typical» circumstellar disk states of primary star + Kuiper Belt Star show evidence for material from each of the different kinds of small outer solar system bodies (Comets, Centaurs, KBOs) like the active comet debris in HR4796A and the icy KBO debris in Fomalhaut and HD 32297?