Sentences with phrase «planetary astronomer mike»
But planetary astronomer Mike Brown and others infer that larger, planet - size bodies could have also been exiled to the Oort cloud; this is the basis for our Planet Y. — The editors
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«This whole word planet is just magical,» says Mike Brown, a planetary astronomer at Caltech.
Caltech astronomer Mike Brown and NASA planetary scientist Kevin Peter Hand have discovered a new chemical «fingerprint» on Europa's surface indicative of life: magnesium sulfate.
KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.
On July 29, 2005, a team of astronomers (including Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz) announced the discovery of a planetary body (2005 FY9) that appeared to be somewhat smaller than Pluto (more from the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes and Licandro et al, 2006).