Sentences with phrase «objects in the solar system called»

On June 11, 2008, On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted at the meeting of its Executive Committee to establish bright «dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune as a new class of substellar objects in the Solar System called «plutoids» (IAU press release).

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Whatever you call may call it, Ceres is one of the most geologically interesting and strange objects in the solar system.

In contrast to earlier observations the team did not observe dust that will later form into planets, but dust created in collisions between small planets of a few kilometres in size — objects called planetesimals that are similar to the asteroids and comets of the Solar SysteIn contrast to earlier observations the team did not observe dust that will later form into planets, but dust created in collisions between small planets of a few kilometres in size — objects called planetesimals that are similar to the asteroids and comets of the Solar Systein collisions between small planets of a few kilometres in size — objects called planetesimals that are similar to the asteroids and comets of the Solar Systein size — objects called planetesimals that are similar to the asteroids and comets of the Solar System.

Decades later, Brown and his colleagues, Chad Trujillo of Gemini Observatory and David Rabinowitz of Yale University, have shaken the world of astronomy right down to that solar system poster, finding orbital objects as far as 10 billion miles from the sun in a ring of debris called the Kuiper belt.

The only objects that fit that bill are comets at the edge of the solar system, in the so - called Oort cloud, and galaxies far out in the universe.

Astronomers who recently discovered the so - called 10th planet have also found what may be the weirdest object in the solar system: a Pluto - size orbiter shaped like a squashed football.

Within about 3 million years, small, rocky objects called planetesimals were circulating in the nascent solar system.

But the newly discovered worlds add an extra twist: all orbit in the opposite direction from all of the other objects in their solar system (a so - called retrograde orbit), and all orbit at severe angles.

Pictures released on Wednesday show what ESA senior scientist Mark McCaughrean called «the most crazy bonkers comet in the solar system» — a bulbous, bilobed object that will surely be difficult to land on.

Eventually, the pair saw that if they ran simulations using a hypothetical massive planet in what's called an anti-aligned orbit — a path in which the planet's perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, is 180 degrees from all of the other objects and known planets in the solar system — their six strangely behaving objects moved in the strange alignment that they actually do in reality.