Sentences with phrase «icy debris disk»
A simulated low - speed crash between comparably sized planetoids yields a Pluto and a Charon, plus an icy debris disk that could coalesce into a Nix and a Hydra.
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Yet icy grains evaporate and collisions produce both gas and dust, so at some level all debris disks must contain some amount of gas.
In particular, I will focus on planets on eccentric orbits, not only because typical exoplanetary systems have been found to contain these, but also because their interactions with debris disks theoretically facilitates the transport of icy bodies within the habitable zone of planetary systems.
(4) Does the «typical» circumstellar disk states of primary star + Kuiper Belt Star show evidence for material from each of the different kinds of small outer solar system bodies (Comets, Centaurs, KBOs) like the active comet debris in HR4796A and the icy KBO debris in Fomalhaut and HD 32297?
This large debris disk is similar to the Kuiper Belt, which encircles the solar system and contains a range of icy bodies from dust grains to objects the size of dwarf planets, such as Pluto.