Sentences with phrase «rocky bodies only»

Similarly, the terms Neptunes and hot Neptunes refer to planets less than about 10 percent of Jupiter's mass, and the term super-Earths refers to those planets that may well be rocky bodies only a few times as massive as Earth.

Not exact matches

Some of my clients innocently entered into the world of dieting, only to find themselves years and years later, with a continually confusing and rocky relationship with both food and their bodies.

Until recently, that rule led scientists to think only in terms of places just like home: temperate, rocky planets with bodies of liquid water on their surfaces.

This is the first time a white dwarf with nitrogen has been discovered, and one of only a few known examples of white dwarfs that have been impacted by a rocky body that was rich in water ice.

Vesta was discovered over two hundred years ago but, until Dawn, has been seen only as an indistinct blur and considered little more than a large, rocky body.