Sentences with phrase «flung out of the solar system»

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.

Jupiter has a tendency to take comets that come too close and fling them out of the solar system.

Others will crash into the sun, others will be flung out of the solar system, others will hit Venus, and so on.

Gravitational interactions with planets over the subsequent 4.5 billion years caused some objects to crash into the sun and others to be flung out of the solar system altogether.

Not exact matches

The gravitational pull of our sun flung it back out of our solar system at a new angle, never to return again.

Conducting those observations required that Voyager 1's trip to Saturn would fling it up and out of the plane of the solar system.

The gravitational pull of our sun adjusted its sharply curved path, flinging it back out of our solar system at a new angle, never to return again.

In an earlier study, also published in MNRAS, researchers concluded that small bodies such as asteroids are more likely to be flung out of binary star systems than systems with single stars (like the solar system).

Comets passing near large planets often are torn apart by gravitational effects or receive gravity boosts that fling them, like slingshots, out of the solar system forever.