Sentences with phrase «icy rocks»

In the 1940s and 1950s, astronomers Kenneth Edgeworth and Gerard Kuiper independently predicted that a reservoir of icy rocks lay beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Scientists think that objects in the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of dwarf planets and icy rocks populating the fringes of our solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, dance mostly to the tune of the giant planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, influenced by their gravity either directly or indirectly.

Planetary scientists now suspect Phoebe started out in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy rocks at the outer edge of the solar system.

Even comets, which come from a distant reservoir of icy rocks in the solar system called the Oort cloud and can have highly titled orbits, still orbit the sun.

There, icy rocks accumulated, which bombarded Neptune and enriched its atmosphere with heavy elements as the rocks disintegrated.

A glacier scientist and expert climber weighs in on the high - altitude mystery surrounding the summit's icy rock face

Saturn's rings might have formed when it ate a rotating icy rock that passed too close.

A recently discovered solitary ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres may have some hidden older siblings, say scientists who have tested a likely way such mountains of icy rock — called cryovolcanoes — might disappear over millions of years.

SAN FRANCISCO — In its final encounter before incinerating in the atmosphere of Jupiter next year, NASA's Galileo spacecraft has shown that one of Jupiter's innermost moons is a lightweight agglomeration of icy rocks.

That proximity could have protected the exoplanet from bombardment by bits of icy rock.

The find has reignited the row over the icy rock's planetary status.

The finding could reignite the debate over the icy rock's planetary status — or lack of.

The Kuiper belt is a vast reservoir of icy rocks that extends from about 3 billion miles from the sun, beyond Neptune's orbit, to about 5 billion miles out.

Kuiper Belt: 30 — 50 AU The Kuiper belt is a vast reservoir of icy rocks that extends from about 3 billion miles from the sun, beyond Neptune's orbit, to 5 billion miles out.

Without a large telescope, you will not notice the asteroid belt, the band of icy rock that girdles the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

This icy rock receives its flattened dinosaur egg shape from its lightning - fast rotation — a day only lasts four hours there.

Land the icy rocks safely on the ground and do not let them fall!