Sentences with phrase «rocky objects like»

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, enormous ground - based observatories like the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, both scheduled to open their eyes around 2020, will perform the more time - consuming work of measuring the masses and densities of the planets found by TESS to determine whether they are rocky objects, gassy ones, or something else entirely.

It may be as large as 1,100 miles in diameter, and it has a mysterious deep red surface — neither particularly dark, like a typical rocky object, nor bright and icy like Pluto and other Kuiper belt objects.

Unlike its conventional rocky cousins, however, this object is sporting what looks like a tail.

«If there is water in Kuiper belt - like objects around other stars, as there now appears to be, then when rocky planets form they need not contain life's ingredients,» said Siyi Xu, the study's lead author, a postdoctoral scholar at the European Southern Observatory in Germany who earned her doctorate at UCLA.

Calcium - carbonate is attractive as a mineral constituent of this planet - like body as incorporating and entraining carbon in rocky objects (especially their surfaces) is difficult.