Sentences with phrase «several outer solar system»

Not exact matches

Several other super-Earths have been identified in systems much like our solar system, with small planets closer to the star and giants in the outer orbits.

That would be big enough to fulfill several high - priority items on astronomers» wish lists, revolutionizing studies of faraway galaxies, observations of planets in the outer solar system and searches for life on Earth - like exoplanets.

Several bodies had recently been discovered orbiting in the outer solar system with a size similar to Pluto's, culminating in Eris, which appeared to be bigger.

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.

The clustering of several of these parameters is the main argument for a ninth planet to exist in the outer solar system.

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.

Planet «c» or «2» - A residual drift in the radial velocity data over several years suggest the presence of an even larger planet in an outer orbit, at about 3.73 AUs from 47 UMa (between the average orbital distances of Jupiter and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System).