Sentences with phrase «rocky bodies with»

Comets, those icy and rocky bodies with the spectacular long tails of gas and dust, are common in our Solar System, with several thousand having been discovered so far.

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.

These bodies, along with Pluto, are members of the Kuiper Belt, a population of rocky potential comets orbiting beyond Neptune.

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.

With a diameter of about 1,215 km, the France - sized moon is one of largest known objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of icy, rocky bodies beyond Neptune.

The presence of this rock at a site indicates either that material has pushed up through Earth's crust from the mantle (a silicate rocky shell between the crust and the core with an average thickness of 2,886 km and depths ranging from 30 km to almost 3,000 km below the crust) or that a celestial body (a comet, meteor or meteorite) fell there.

The rocky body — the largest yet to get a close flyby — seems to have been just large enough to avoid being reduced to a flying pile of rubble by eons of collisions with other asteroids.

They modelled more complex bodies than have been tried before: rather than just a homogeneous ball, they included more realistic objects with a hard, rocky core surrounded by an icy mantle.

Researchers haven't yet confirmed the idea, but further studies should produce new clues about the composition and behavior of these tiny rocky bodies — information that someday could help prevent a catastrophic collision with Earth.

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.

In 2006, with the discovery of several other rocky bodies similar in size or larger than Pluto, the IAU decided to re-classify Pluto as a dwarf planet.

tectonic Surface activity on a large rocky body (such as a planet or moon) as liquid rock flows up to the surface where it solidifies, then slowly drifts atop molten rock, carrying surface features with it.

Ceres is a partially differentiated body, with a rocky core overlaid by a volatile - rich shell.»

In addition to rocky asteroids and icier bodies further out from the Sun, many agglomerated into larger planetesimals that eventually collided to form planets like the Earth, and more than 250 minerals, including olivine and zircon, developed within the planetesimals with the help of melting, collisional shocks, and reactions with water.

In between, we get a mopey subplot about Ben Grimm dealing with his new rocky body.

All things considered I'd rather deal with the small rocky bodies heading towards earth.

Fairy basslets, with purple heads and bright orange bodies, dangle from beneath overhangs and rocky outcroppings.

In each montage the artist's photograph of a rocky and savage coastal landscape is partially overlaid and merged with enlarged images of cells from her own body.