Sentences with phrase «distant object in the solar system»

This is the first time ion engines have been used to send a spacecraft into orbit around a distant object in the solar system.

I have been working on two surveys using the 48 - inch Palomar Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory and 8.2 - m Subaru telescope telescope on Mauna Kea to search for the most distant objects in the solar system.

notes about the most distant object in the solar system and the surface temperatures of the planets from RGO

Jewitt, Luu, and Brown's discoveries were each the result of cleverly designed observational campaigns aimed specifically at detecting new classes of distant objects in the Solar System.

Not exact matches

Its name loosely means «a messenger that reaches out from the distant past» in Hawaiian, and is the first known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System.

Here are maps for the positions of known natural objects in the inner, outer and distant solar system in January 2016

«Oumuamua shares a red - tinted light profile akin to distant Kuiper Belt Objects in our own solar system, which may be a hint about how prolonged exposure to deep space alters the composition of space rocks.

Named Sedna, after the Inuit goddess who created the animals of the sea, it is by far the most distant known object in our solar system.

Sedna's odd, far - flung orbit made it the most distant known object in the solar system at the time.

At three times the distance of Pluto from the sun, DeeDee is the second-most distant known trans - Neptunian object with a confirmed orbit in our solar system.

Light from the object travelled from 13 to 14.5 billion light - years (ly)-- assuming an estimated age for the universe of roughly 14 to 15 or so billion years — before reaching the Solar System in March 2000, making J1030 the most distant object then detected in visible and x-ray wavelengths (Pentericci et al, 2002; and Malthur et al, 2002).

Although GPI was designed to look at distant planets, it can also observe objects in our Solar System.

«Oumuamua shares similarities with small objects in the outer Solar System, especially the distant worlds of the Kuiper Belt — a region of rocky, frigid worlds far beyond Neptune.