Sentences with phrase «icy objects left»
Prevailing theories of solar system formation, Levison explains, hold that early in the system's history there were plenty of icy objects left over from planetary formation.
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One possiblity is that an icy object might have collided with 24 Themis, leaving behind a layer of ice.
It is a giant swarm of icy objects believed to be material left over from the formation of the solar system.
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.