Sentences with phrase «planetary building blocks»

Thinking small has enabled an international team of scientists to gain new insight into the evolution of planetary building blocks in the early solar system.

This fine dust could come from the frequent collisions between planetary building blocks.

«Chondrules were long viewed as planetary building blocks,» states Maria Zuber, Professor of Geophysics and MIT's vice president for research.

In a fascinating set of projects we will look at the smallest scales and back in time, probing the mineralogy and composition of micron - sized grains in ancient meteorites using the most sophisticated microscopic techniques, to explore the history of volatiles and organics in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was young.

Then, the team used a computer program to test different compositions of basic planetary building blocks to determine which makeups would yield planets with those densities.

One ERS program will stare into the hearts of neighboring nascent star systems to watch ices, organic molecules and other planetary building blocks dance around coalescing suns.

Planets have churned and reprocessed that original material, but the unused bits became asteroids and comets, which are essentially pristine planetary building blocks.

«How planetary building blocks evolved from porous to hard objects.»

We will carry out a series of numerical investigations to understand how organics and volatiles are incorporated into planetary building blocks and then trace the dynamical evolution of these building blocks throughout the period of planetary assembly.

This finding was expected because meteorites from Vesta have less iron than the solar nebula from which planetary building blocks formed.

«Here we have a rare opportunity to study a phenomenon that plays out over many decades and provides a window into the types of environments around stars that could represent planetary building blocks at the very end of a star system's life.»

«Chondrules were long viewed as planetary building blocks,» Zuber notes.

Computer models have shown that the early solar system was a tumultuous billiards table, with dozens or even hundreds of planetary building blocks the size of Earth bouncing around.

However, another planetary building block does appear to linger: the gaseous parts of the disks, perhaps fostering additional growth of gas - giant planets like Jupiter for millions of years.

Comets, like asteroids, are planetary building blocks that were never incorporated into planets.

In research published this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters, Dr Zoe Leinhardt and colleagues from Bristol's School of Physics have completed computer simulations of the early stages of planet formation around the binary stars using a sophisticated model that calculates the effect of gravity and physical collisions on and between one million planetary building blocks.