Sentences with phrase «outermost planets»

NASA officially acknowledged the possibility of Planet X, with the announcement that «some kind of mystery object is really there — far beyond the outermost planets».

The Earth - Moon doesn't orbit the Earth - Moon - Sun barycenter exactly but it is not orbiting the barycenter of the solar sysem either; to some approximation the innermost planets and the sun must wobble around the barycenter together as they are similarly affected by the outermost planets which happen to be more massive as well as more distant and thus dominate in their effects on the barycenter — things should tend to get more complicated when the planets involved are at more similar distances.

one of the four enormous outermost planets in the solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus), composed mostly of gases instead of rock.

When astronomers in February announced the discovery of seven planets orbiting a supercool star, details about the outermost planet were sketchy.

However, its large outermost planet could have long ago swept that vicinity clean of planetary material, notes planetary scientist Jonathan Lunine of the University of Arizona at Tucson.

Kepler - 186f is the fifth and outermost planet discovered orbiting around the dwarf star Kepler - 186.

Dust at the outermost planet's orbit moves too slowly to snowball into a giant planet, and the star's heat would prevent the innermost disc collapsing, they say (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09684).

This distance is three times longer than the orbit of Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.

Until now, Pluto, the outermost planet, was the only object in this region known to have a satellite.

Gebhardt says the black hole's event horizon — the edge from within nothing can escape, not even light — is four times as large as the orbit of Neptune, the outermost planet in our solar system.

The fifth and outermost planet, designated Tau Ceti f, completes an orbit every 640 days and is slightly closer to its star than Mars is to the sun.

Dust at the outermost planet's orbit moves too slowly to snowball into a giant planet, and the...

His 2005 discovery of Eris, a remote icy world nearly the same size as Pluto, revealed that what was seen as the outermost planet was just one of many worlds in the Kuiper belt.

The sixth, outermost planet is too far from any neighbors to exert such effects, so the Kepler scientists can only set an extreme upper limit on its mass.

The outermost planet is nearly 70 times as far from its star as the Earth is from the sun.

Kepler - 20d, the outermost planet in the system, was found to weigh in at less than 20.1 Earth masses.

As of October 19, 2010, three planets have been detected around Star A, and the potential presence a fourth outermost planet «e» is suggested in preliminary data.

In May 2010, astronomers announced a 30 - degree difference in orbital inclination between planets «c» and «d» and indications of a fourth, outermost planet «e» (NASA news release; and McArthur et al, 2010 — more below).

Some scientists think that the system's outermost planet is icy, though its mass has not yet been determined.

Not exact matches

The calculated water loss rates as well as geophysical water release rates also favour the idea that the outermost, more massive planets retain their water.

Images taken with Cassini's narrow angle camera on April 15, 2013, show disturbances at the very edge of Saturn's A ring — the outermost of the planet's large, bright rings.

Pluto's four outermost moons whirl around the dwarf planet in these images from the New Horizons spacecraft.

The Juno spacecraft, streaking toward its rendezvous with Jupiter, crossed the orbit of the outermost of that planet's large satellites, Callisto, yesterday at 11 A.M. Pacific time.

The planet, called Fomalhaut b, swings as close to its star as 4.6 billion miles, and the outermost point of its orbit is 27 billion miles away from the star.

The team suggests that this may instead be due to flexing of the lithosphere (the outermost layer of the planet) that occurred when the volcanic Tharsis region formed.

On March 29, 2010, two astronomers submitted a paper on the confirmation of two planets and presented evidence for the presence of a third planet in an outermost orbit (Gregory and Fischer, 2010 — more below).

Neptune is the fourth and outermost of the gas giant planets.

Kepler - 80g is the outermost world of a compact system of six planets, all with orbits between 1 — 10 days.