Sentences with phrase «reservoir of icy»
Kuiper Belt: 30 — 50 AU The Kuiper belt is a vast reservoir of icy rocks that extends from about 3 billion miles from the sun, beyond Neptune's orbit, to 5 billion miles out.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, astronomers Kenneth Edgeworth and Gerard Kuiper independently predicted that a reservoir of icy rocks lay beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Even comets, which come from a distant reservoir of icy rocks in the solar system called the Oort cloud and can have highly titled orbits, still orbit the sun.
Not exact matches
«We're not sure whether these stars are holding onto reservoirs of gas much longer than expected, or whether there's a sort of «last gasp» of second - generation gas produced by collisions of comets or evaporation from the icy mantles of dust grains,» said Meredith Hughes, an astronomer at Wesleyan University and coauthor of the study.
That's because Jupiter also pulls comets out of their icy reservoir in the outer realms of the solar system.
The finding implies the fine spray of water vapor, icy particles and simple organic molecules Cassini has observed coming from fractures near the moon's south pole is being fed by this vast liquid water reservoir.
Scientists suspect that inside Europa, one of the icy moons of Jupiter, reservoirs of liquid water exist, the essential element for life on Earth.
On June 22, 2011, scientists working with the Cassini spacecraft revealed that the «best evidence yet» of a large reservoir of saltwater beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon, Enceladus.