Sentences with phrase «oldest objects in the solar system»

Researchers think that these meteorites, which were knocked off asteroids that formed beyond Jupiter, are among the oldest objects in the solar system.

For the first time, NASA is finally venturing out, visiting one of the oldest objects in the solar system — older than the planets themselves — and returning home with a piece of that ancient history.

There was no way to «ride along» with the mission to one of the oldest objects in our solar system and feel the excitement as a new frontier unfolded far from Earth.

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«It's been in a deep freeze at 400 degrees below zero all that time, so it's a perfectly preserved relic from the birth of our home solar system,» Stern says of the 4 billion - year - old object.