Sentences with phrase «distant planetary bodies»

The squid - inspired robot is a concept proposed to one day explore the seas of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, or other distant planetary bodies.

Not exact matches

This clustering of orbital parameters of the most distant KBOs suggested a large, planetary size body shepherding their orbits.

In January, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two planetary scientists at the California Institute of Technology, speculated on the existence of a ninth planet based on an odd alignment of six distant icy bodies.

Together, the studies finger Phoebe as a likely relic from the distant swarm of frozen cometary bodies called the Kuiper Belt, says planetary scientist J. Brad Dalton of the SETI Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

The overabundance of brown dwarfs and low - mass planetary bodies skewing the IMF for the nebula will surely refine these models further, and by understanding how nearby nebulae form stars, we can gain a better comprehension of how their distant cousins do the same.

Planetary body 2014 UZ224, also known as DeeDee (short for «distant dwarf»), has been getting a lot of attention from a team of scientists who've observed it using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.