Sentences with phrase «icy bodies out»

Not exact matches

New Horizons also could potentially take a close - up look at a smaller, more ancient object much farther out in the Kuiper Belt: the disk - shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune believed to contain comets, asteroids and other small, icy bodies.

Like other teams positioned in a 1500 - kilometer - wide swath across South America, the astronomers had started out the night with one mission: They intended to measure the size of Chariklo, an icy body that circles the sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus.

It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the orbits of distant bodies, perhaps even tilting the entire solar system to one side.

Those that did not escape completely from our Sun's gravitational pull eventually became part of the distant Oort Cloud, which became a vast repository of icy bodies tossed out of the early Solar System.

In addition to rocky asteroids and icier bodies further out from the Sun, many agglomerated into larger planetesimals that eventually collided to form planets like the Earth, and more than 250 minerals, including olivine and zircon, developed within the planetesimals with the help of melting, collisional shocks, and reactions with water.

Sig has just discovered his father's body when a lawless man, from whom his father had escaped, appears out of the icy wilderness.