Sentences with phrase «flung out of orbit»

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But as they pass closer and closer to Jupiter, the planet can fling them out of the solar system entirely or jostle their orbits into smaller loops.

But interactions with the newly formed giant planets ejected many of those comets into interstellar space, flung others out into what would become the Oort Cloud, and knocked some into elongated, somewhat shorter orbits in what is known as the scattered disk.

Whereas NASA's Kepler Space Telescope seeks out the transits of exoplanets across the face of their stars, microlensing can detect entire star systems with exoplanets in far - flung orbits, but this can only be done with confirmation from Hubble.

The EDDE could then either fling the garbage back to Earth to land in the oceans, or push the objects into a closer orbit, which would keep them out of the way of current satellites until they decay and fall back to Earth.