Sentences with phrase «small rocky objects»
Astronomers infer the presence of small rocky objects that give rise to such planets by detecting warm disks of dusty particles girdling young stars.
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They hope to obtain images of this small rocky object that are as good as the snapshots of another -LSB-...]
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When dwarf planet 2012 VP113 was discovered in March, it joined a handful of small, rocky objects known to reside past the orbit of Pluto.
The seeming abundance of rocky super-Earths lends support to the core accretion model of planet formation, in which small rocky bodies collide and clump together to grow into these objects.
Within about 3 million years, small, rocky objects called planetesimals were circulating in the nascent solar system.
Published in the current issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper uses laboratory simulations of an Earth impact as evidence that a stratified layer beneath the rocky mantle — which appears in seismic data — was created when Earth was struck by a smaller object.
«Oumuamua shares similarities with small objects in the outer Solar System, especially the distant worlds of the Kuiper Belt — a region of rocky, frigid worlds far beyond Neptune.