Sentences with phrase «of other icy bodies»

Poor Pluto is crowded by thousands of other icy bodies in the outer solar system, some bigger than Pluto itself, so it fails the test.

Not exact matches

The new findings are observational evidence supporting the idea that icy bodies are also present in other planetary systems, and have survived throughout the history of the star's evolution.

The other suggests they arose in a two - stage process called core accretion, in which bits of material smashed and fused together to form bigger rocky, icy bodies.

The missing chunk could be due to a giant impact, smashing away part of KBO's icy mantle, or it could mean Quaoar is actually a «contact binary,» consisting of two more - or-less spherical bodies that touch each other.

The other two gaps are 100 AU and 160 AU from the central star, well beyond the extent of our solar system's Kuiper Belt, the region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

New Horizons also could potentially take a close - up look at a smaller, more ancient object much farther out in the Kuiper Belt: the disk - shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune believed to contain comets, asteroids and other small, icy bodies.

Like other teams positioned in a 1500 - kilometer - wide swath across South America, the astronomers had started out the night with one mission: They intended to measure the size of Chariklo, an icy body that circles the sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus.

«Although toxic to us, carbon monoxide is one of many gases found in comets and other icy bodies,» Aki Roberge, an astrophysicist at NASA, said in a statement.

The observations suggest that the dust was created by collisions in a Edgeworth - Kuiper - like belt of icy bodies, and that the orbital asymmetry could be an indication that the dust is being shepherded by an unseen planetary companion — among other explanations (Eiroa et al, 2010).

The new findings support the notion that belts of icy bodies are also in other planetary systems, and have persisted throughout their star's development.

Had I known I'd be sleeping at icy campsites, and pushing my body's ability to cope with altitudes over 15,400 feet, I might have had second thoughts about the three - day trek from Urubamba (in the Sacred Valley of Peru) to Lares hot springs, 20 km away on the other side of a mountain range that we had to climb over.