Sentences with phrase «elongated orbit around the sun»

The rocky debris, consisting of mostly sand - size particles, continues in an elongated orbit around the Sun close to that of its parent comet.

After ejection, the moon could either have crashed into another Solar System object (like a neighboring gas giant) or been sent into an elongated orbit around the Sun like a comet or into interstellar space (Boué and Laskar, 2009; and Ker Than, New Scientist, December 4, 2009).

Not exact matches

Although the earth's orbit around the Sun is almost circular, most comets travel in orbits that are highly elongated ellipses.

Currently located between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune in the inner Solar System, 2006 SQ372 travels on an extremely elongated, 22,500 - year orbit around the Sun, that comes within 24 AUs of Sol before moving as far out as 1,600 AUs.

The planet's orbit around the sun is an ellipse: sometimes it is almost but not quite a circle, and sometimes the orbit is elongated, which means that the total sunshine that hits the planet changes.