Sentences with phrase «out of the solar system»

This would be true whether it caught the comet on the way in or on the way out of the solar system.

For just $ 100 million or so, a customer could actually purchase a top - of - the - line commercial rocket and ride right out of the solar system.

Already it is starting to head out of the solar system.

Probes now speed out of our solar system at unimaginable speeds, and terraforming is being tested on a large planetoid named Haven - 7 which now orbits close to Earth.

Gravitational interactions with planets over the subsequent 4.5 billion years caused some objects to crash into the sun and others to be flung out of the solar system altogether.

The gravitational pull of our sun flung it back out of our solar system at a new angle, never to return again.

In 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft briefly looked back from its journey out of the solar system, capturing a view of the faraway Earth.

An apparent interstellar asteroid is flying out of our solar system after being first sighted in October.

«It's almost like launching a rocket into low - Earth orbit and then getting shot out of the Solar System by a second rocket blast.

In fact, the massive planet flings some comets out of the solar system altogether.

I really don't think Pluto should be taken out of the solar system just because the scientists made a mistake.

When interstellar asteroid «Oumuamua was seen speeding out of our solar system last October, astronomers knew it was something special.

His 2013 study concluded that it would cost about $ 30 billion to build a beamer that can send a probe out of the solar system, but once built, the system could be operated cheaply.

Jupiter's gravity might have even cast a fifth giant planet out of the solar system.

«Oumuamua slingshotted around the sun on September 9 at a speed of 315,000 kilometers an hour (196,000 mph) and is now traveling out of the solar system.

We need a spirituality that emerges out of a reality deeper than ourselves, even deeper than life, a spirituality that is as deep as the earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system.

Any protoplanetary object drifting too close to proto - Jupiter would have gone on a wild ride: The gravity of the mighty proto - Jupiter was capable of tossing the smaller newborn planet (pdf) completely out of the solar system.

Its progeny will eventually move out of the Solar System and create colonies in the galaxies beyond, ensuring Metaman's continued survival.

At present, the most economically viable fast boat out of the solar system would probably be a spacecraft propelled by regular pulses of detonating atomic explosives.

Others call for constructing gossamer - thin thousand - kilometer - wide «sails» in space, which would ride on powerful laser or particle beams out of solar system.

When satellites go off to places like Jupiter or Saturn (or even out of the solar system), they follow crazy orbits.

Since then, their parabolic trajectory has sent them on a path out of the Solar System.

Comets passing near large planets often are torn apart by gravitational effects or receive gravity boosts that fling them, like slingshots, out of the solar system forever.

If the project is successful, it could produce an image to rival the iconic «pale blue dot» photograph taken in 1990 when Nasa's Voyager 1 probe looked back at Earth as it barrelled out of the solar system.

Mankind is on the verge of sending the very first object out of the solar system.

It sweeps space rays out of the solar system like a broom,» Zeleny points out.

«We can say with confidence that this object is on its way out of the solar system and not coming back.»

Strange fluctuations in the light spectra emitted from near a quasar could be due to the effect of around 2000 planets flung out of their solar systems

The gravitational pull of our sun adjusted its sharply curved path, flinging it back out of our solar system at a new angle, never to return again.

Their gravity is strong enough that they tend to kick asteroids and comets right out of the solar system.

As NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 unmanned deep space probes head out of the Solar System, they are in territory that is the very definition of «uncharted.»

Thirty - three years into its voyage, the solar wind speed around Voyager 1 has dropped to zero as the space - hardened craft nears a milestone in its journey out of the solar system

Telescopes around the world trained their gaze on the mysterious visitor in an effort to learn as much as possible before it headed back out of the Solar System, becoming too faint to observe in detail.

Benford's analysis convinced James Guillochon and Avi Loeb of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics that sailships might afford the most practical means of space travel, both within and out of the solar system.

But as they pass closer and closer to Jupiter, the planet can fling them out of the solar system entirely or jostle their orbits into smaller loops.

Other worlds, namely Uranus and Neptune, are even more overlooked: Both have only been visited once apiece by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which flew by them in the 1980s on its way out of the solar system.

«It is going extremely fast and on such a trajectory that we can say with confidence that this object is on its way out of the solar system and not coming back.»

On its way out of the solar system, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a «magnetic highway» of charged particles — a hint that the spacecraft may not have far to go before reaching the brink of interstellar space.

With a solar sail, you just fly very close to the sun, turn the sails face on toward the sun, and let the sunlight pressure blast you out of the solar system.

Speed was vital as «Oumuamua was rapidly fading as it headed away from the Sun and past the Earth's orbit, on its way out of the Solar System.

This suggests that any asteroids passing through such manifolds would most likely hitch a ride on the manifolds and drift right out of the solar system.

Jupiter might slingshot it out of the solar system or into a collision with Earth.

Jupiter has a tendency to take comets that come too close and fling them out of the solar system.

Editor's note: This story was updated November 9, 2017, with new information about the asteroid's name and how fast it's traveling on its way out of the solar system.

Others will crash into the sun, others will be flung out of the solar system, others will hit Venus, and so on.