Sentences with phrase «by icy asteroids»
Not exact matches
Many young stars known to host planets also possess disks containing dust and icy grains, particles produced by collisions among asteroids and comets also orbiting the star.
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However, there were other possible sources of water: interplanetary dust particles produced by cometary activity and asteroid collisions, icy rings, or one of the 60 Jovian satellites.
What little rocky material occurs in today's ring system probably is the debris of collisions between icy ring particles and asteroids and comets swept up by the planet's huge gravitational field, says Canup.
Explosive, indestructible, and projectile - ricocheting icy asteroids will slam against your ship, or can be weaponized against or by your opponents.