Sentences with phrase «object in the outer solar system»
The term "object in the outer solar system" refers to any celestial body or spacecraft that is located beyond the orbit of Neptune, which is the eighth planet from the Sun and marks the boundary between the inner and outer solar system. Full definition
In fact, at least half a dozen objects in our outer solar system are now believed to hold oceans beneath frozen shells.
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The new category and name reflect a growing body of evidence showing that Pluto shares its neighborhood with numerous other objects in the outer solar system that all orbit the sun.
«With cheap, fast spacecraft,» says Guillochon, «we could send one out to every asteroid in the asteroid belt or to every Pluto - like object in the outer solar system.
«Most of the ways we have of measuring the sizes of objects in the outer solar system are fraught with difficulties,» Brown notes on his website.
There are no discrepancies in the trajectories of any space probes such as Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 that can be attributed to the gravitational pull of a large undiscovered object in the outer Solar System.
JWST's sensitive instruments should be able to deliver some information as to what elements created rocky and icy objects in the outer solar system, Brown said at the town hall meeting.
Searching for slow - moving, nearly invisible objects in the outer solar system was a laborious and thankless task that most astronomers didn't think was worth the effort.
In addition, Ceres» light spectrum suggests that it may have ammonium - rich clay at the surface, which would fit the expected ammonia - rich composition of large, differentiated substellar objects in the outer Solar System, including the «plutoids» defined on June 11, 2008 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as a new class of bright «dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune (IAU press release).
«Oumuamua shares similarities with small objects in the outer Solar System, especially the distant worlds of the Kuiper Belt — a region of rocky, frigid worlds far beyond Neptune.
The two nuclear - powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to take close - up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, the planets» moons and rings, and other objects in the outer solar system.
«We also found that it had a reddish color, similar to objects in the outer Solar System, and confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.»
We also found that it has a dark red colour, similar to objects in the outer Solar System, and confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.»
The analogy I like is that these objects in the outer solar system are the blood splattered on the wall after some horrendous murder.
The first proposal suggests an object in the outer solar system, while the other points to a massive planet with two trails of «Trojan asteroids.»
«We also found that it has a dark red color, similar to objects in the outer solar system, and confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.»
Follow - up observations, detailed today in Nature, have found that the asteroid is dark and reddish, similar to the objects in the outer Solar System.
«We also found that it had a reddish color, similar to objects in the outer solar system, and confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.»