Sentences with phrase «completely out of the solar system»

Any protoplanetary object drifting too close to proto - Jupiter would have gone on a wild ride: The gravity of the mighty proto - Jupiter was capable of tossing the smaller newborn planet (pdf) completely out of the solar system.

Not exact matches

The sun just became a tiny amount bigger, and the solar system just became a tiny bit less cluttered when comet Ison came out of the oort cloud and was nearly completely destroyed by the sun.

Those that did not escape completely from our Sun's gravitational pull eventually became part of the distant Oort Cloud, which became a vast repository of icy bodies tossed out of the early Solar System.