Sentences with phrase «several objects in our solar system»

So if the big bang happened, then several objects in our solar system are rotating in the wrong direction and thus violating these laws.

Jim Green: The Snowball Earth era reminds me of several objects in the Solar System now that we're trying to study, one of which is Europa, [which has] got this fabulous icy crust over the whole moon and underneath it perhaps as much as twice the volume of water than exists here on Earth.

Not exact matches

Here's how the theory goes: In the early solar system, dust particles glommed together to form bigger dust particles, which formed pebbles, then rocks, and so forth, until they combined into an object up to several hundred miles in diameteIn the early solar system, dust particles glommed together to form bigger dust particles, which formed pebbles, then rocks, and so forth, until they combined into an object up to several hundred miles in diametein diameter.

Several teams are racing to spot Planet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered orbits.

Images from the Deep Space 1 spacecraft show that Comet Borrelly is the darkest object yet observed in the inner solar system, and several spots on its surface are blacker than anything planetary scientists have ever seen.

This talk, featured at the Keck Week Science Meeting in March 2013, describes several objects discovered and characterized in our outer solar system including Haumea, a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt named after the Hawaiian goddess.

Since the K2 mission officially began in May, Kepler has observed more than 35,000 stars and collected data on several planetary objects within the solar system.