Sentences with phrase «icy objects called»

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Scientists have since turned up more than 1,000 objects in this region, now called the Kuiper Belt, a disk - shaped realm of icy objects out past Neptune.

But alas, future sightings of this object probably aren't in the cards: Less than a week after the comet swooped past the sun, its icy nucleus shattered and disappeared, likely due to its brief but close call with extreme heat.

She had to settle for an offer from ucla to study another icy object, a less glamorous asteroid called Pallas.