Not exact matches
«Oumuamua's spectrum is similar to those of other
objects in the solar system suspected of concealing
such icy interiors.
By devising and running a new computer model, Quillen, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rochester, has now shown that the tidal pull exerted by another, similar
object could be strong enough to crack the surface of
such icy moons.
The large satellites of Uranus show unique geologic features we'd like to understand (
such as the tortured - looking surface of Miranda, a small moon with the tallest cliff in the Solar System), while Neptune's satellite Triton is thought to be a captured Kuiper Belt
object, similar to Pluto, potentially harboring an ocean under its
icy surface.
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.
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.