Sentences with phrase «fragments of a larger body»

If the «string - of - pearls» exocomets are indeed fragments of a larger body, they could help astronomers understand the composition of their massive parent, Roberge says.

Not exact matches

«What is most likely the case is that the parent body [of this family] was water - ice - rich, was broken up, and now the surface of its largest fragment, Themis, has been impact - excavated, revealing the ice that was once deep in a larger object,» says Britney Schmidt of UCLA, who was not affiliated with Campins's study.

That's most likely because they are fragments of a larger icy body, say a planet, that recently broke up, the researchers suggest.

Jemison's works are often fragments that point to a larger body of research, much of it focused on the epistemological implications of such encounters.

Crouching Woman (1906 - 1908), Meditation without arms (after 1900), Torso of a Young Woman with Arched Back (1909): these masterpieces demonstrate Rodin's experimental nature in large - format plaster sculptures and convey his sensual depiction of the female body through raw, fragmented forms.

The artist has now shifted his focus from photography to making large digital tableaux in which swirling brushstrokes mix with and partially obscure images of contorted, fragmented bodies.

RAIL: But there's a big leap from that particular body of work, which is relatively small, to these blown - up fragments and details of Stuart Davis's painting, printed on a large mural, billboard scale, then painted over by you.