Sentences with phrase «distant dwarf planet»

It currently reigns as the most distant dwarf planet with a nearly uniform icy surface containing methane and nitrogen ice.

«Astronomers discover new distant dwarf planet beyond Neptune.»

Yesterday, at a joint meeting here of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, planetary researchers showed how distant dwarf planets in the outer solar system — some of them named after mythological spirits — reveal hidden properties when they pass in front of even more remote stars, a process known as «occulting.»

Emily Lakdawalla explores newly - discovered and very distant dwarf planets, and Bill Nye the Science guy has the latest on NASA's planetary science budget.

Then 75 more years passed before Brown located the distant dwarf planet Eris and showed that Pluto is not alone.

2015 was a year in which robotic spacecraft made some startling discoveries, including finding the first evidence of flowing water on Mars and providing the first close - up glimpses of the distant dwarf planet Pluto.

New Horizons will spend the next seven months gathering data on the distant dwarf planet with its closest encounter with Pluto scheduled for July 15, 2015.

This artist's concept shows the distant dwarf planet Makemake and its newly discovered moon.

This is the latest unexpected discovery uncovered concerning the distant dwarf planet.

The distant dwarf planet just keeps on surprising the universe.

New work from Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory reports the discovery of a distant dwarf planet, called 2012 VP113, which was found beyond the known edge of the solar system.