Sentences with phrase «icy objects beyond»

Kuiper Belt is a disc - shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune in our solar system.

Astronomers will be searching for direct evidence of a ninth planet in the far reaches of the solar system; its existence was inferred this year from its gravitational effects on icy objects beyond Pluto.

Not exact matches

With a diameter of about 1,215 km, the France - sized moon is one of largest known objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of icy, rocky bodies beyond Neptune.

Meanwhile we can enjoy the tale of the hunt for the latest icy quarry in the cloud of objects beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper belt.

Most will be icy middleweight objects in the Kuiper Belt out beyond Neptune, and one or two may be asteroids.

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.

If the early results hold up, this time it's the dwarf planet Eris's turn to be demoted, and Pluto might have just regained its status as the largest object in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune.

Icy comets orbiting beyond Neptune were pure speculation until the first of these Kuiper belt objects turned up in the 1990s — and there may be millions of them, too.

Ice worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune known as Trans - Neptunian Objects may have liquid oceans beneath their icy surface, a NASA study suggested.

It's possible bigger objects exist in the icy depths beyond Neptune; but given that we haven't found any after years of searching makes it likely Pluto is the biggest, or at least one of the biggest.

Each proposed scenario creates a population of icy bodies beyond the Kuiper belt and leaves a distinctive imprint on the orbits of these distant objects that would be still be observable today.

Both objects formed among the rocky and icy protoplanets beyond the Solar System's «ice line» now located around 2.7 AUs, but the early development of Jupiter apparently prevented such large protoplanets between the gas giant and planet Mars from agglomerating into even bigger planetary bodies, by sweeping many into pulverizing collisions as well as slinging them into the Sun or Oort Cloud, or even beyond Sol's gravitational reach altogether.

Including Eris, Pluto, and now Make - make (2005 FY9), the largest dwarf planets include many recently discovered icy objects that orbit the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune (more).