Sentences with phrase «circles around the comet»
Because the gravity is so low, the spacecraft isn't making neat circles around the comet, but travels in a series of triangular orbits as it nudges closer to the nucleus over the next six weeks.
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Earth is no stranger to comets, of course, which in our solar system come from two main regions: the Kuiper Belt, which circles the cosmic block around Neptune, Pluto, and beyond; and the Oort Cloud, a bubble of ice lumps that surrounds the solar system at such great distances we've never even seen it.
This time - lapse image shows comet Ison approaching and leaving during its slingshot around the sun (represented by the white circle)-- on Nov. 28, 2013.