Sentences with phrase «of rocky debris»

SHATTERED HORIZON Developer: Futuremark Games Studios Publisher: To be announced Platforms: PC Release date: To be announced About the game: Shattered Horizon is a multiplayer first - person shooter where players fight in zero gravity surrounded by the broken remains of orbital infrastructure and billions of tons of rocky debris thrown into orbit by a huge explosion on the Moon.

A catastrophic explosion on the Moon has filled near - Earth space with billions of tons of rocky debris.

Previous researchers have certainly theorized the existence of a ninth planet, sometimes known as Planet X or Planet 9, based on computer models and the observed behaviors of objects in the Kuiper Belt — a ring of rocky debris beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Whatever their origin, the planemos are surrounded by disks of rocky debris, suggesting that they each may be at the center of a whole miniature system of planets circling planets.

Batbaatar and co-author Alan Gillespie, a UW research professor emeritus in Earth and Space Sciences, collected samples from moraines, which are long ridges of rocky debris dropped at a glacier's edge.

The crash also created a ring of rocky debris around Mars that may have later clumped together to form its moons, Phobos and Deimos.

Not exact matches

These «debris disks» are constantly fed by collisions among rocky bodies — the larger of which can survive and grow by continued accretion — because the tiny dust grains quickly fall onto the central star or get blown out of the planetary system.

The debris probably was dredged up from the bottom of the moon's ocean by water percolating through the rocky core, and then...

But until recently the rocky debris that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter remained unvisited.

New stars incorporate this debris, and over several generations, enough metals build up to form the rocky grains thought to assemble the cores of all planets.

With the discovery of asteroid debris in the SDSS 1557 system, we see clear signatures of rocky planet assembly via large asteroids that formed, helping us understand how rocky exoplanets are made in double star systems.»

Dating the phases of glacial advance requires to analyze moraines, rocky debris carried along by the glacier.

What little rocky material occurs in today's ring system probably is the debris of collisions between icy ring particles and asteroids and comets swept up by the planet's huge gravitational field, says Canup.

McKinnon has one idea: If the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn could pin down the nature of Titan's interior, researchers would know whether it formed hot in violent collisions — which would have produced a rocky core — or it formed cold through the quiet agglomeration of primordial debris.

Astronomers have long suspected that the young, 12 - million - year - old star hosts a massive planet, since it is surrounded by a dusty disc of debris thought to be created by the collision of rocky bodies and infalling comets.

The rocky debris, consisting of mostly sand - size particles, continues in an elongated orbit around the Sun close to that of its parent comet.

In a series of papers published online today in Science, researchers report that according to Dawn observations, Vesta did indeed agglomerate enough rocky debris as it grew to heat itself by the decay of the rock's radioactive elements.

During the crossing, icy and rocky debris in the belt could crash into the planet's atmosphere and create the type of cosmic fireworks seen when comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter,» Kalas said.

According to scientists, a very thick cloud of dusty debris now orbits the star in the zone where rocky planets typically form.

Abstract: [Abridged] Debris discs around main - sequence stars indicate the presence of larger rocky bodies.

Even the lichens (symbiotic organsism made of fungus and an algae or bacteria) that survive on the rocky debris, or moraine, that forms around a glacier have a story to tell.