Sentences with phrase «icy space rock»
A comet is essentially a big lump of icy space rock.
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The space rock is just 154 miles wide, yet when it passed in front of a distant star, two delicate, icy rings clearly stood out.
And since its surface is icy and it has a penchant for spewing water and ammonia into space, researchers have concluded it probably has a crust of ice, a watery mantle and a core of solid rock.
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Suddenly, after passing through the Kuiper belt, a region of space teeming with icy rocks, there's nothing.
If Pluto's core was rocky and its mantle icy, most of the material blasted into space by the collision would have been ice, accounting for Pluto's high rock - to - ice ratio today.
«It's very exciting that we can use these tiny grains of rock, spewed into space by geysers, to tell us about conditions on — and beneath — the ocean floor of an icy moon,» said the paper's lead author Sean Hsu, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder.