Sentences with phrase «slowly accrete»

Swarms of boulder - size objects called planetesimals slowly accreted to form the rocky planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars — and their various and sundry satellites.

Lahiri switches between narrating the present and filling in the back - story, slowly accreting the heft and solidity of a life.

Not exact matches

Apparently the drillers had hit meltwater from the top of Lake Vostok that had slowly refrozen and accreted onto the bottom of the overlying glacial ice sheet.

[3] Type Ia Supernovae occur when an accreting white dwarf in a binary star system slowly gains mass from its companion until it reaches a limit that triggers the nuclear fusion of carbon.