Sentences with phrase «traveling out of the solar system»
«Oumuamua slingshotted around the sun on September 9 at a speed of 315,000 kilometers an hour (196,000 mph) and is now traveling out of the solar system.
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Benford's analysis convinced James Guillochon and Avi Loeb of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics that sailships might afford the most practical means of space travel, both within and out of the solar system.
Editor's note: This story was updated November 9, 2017, with new information about the asteroid's name and how fast it's traveling on its way out of the solar system.
Traveling at nearly the speed of light, the charged particles produced by the nuclear reactions would fly out of the back end of the craft, propelling it beyond the solar system.
IF YOU travel out to the far edge of the solar system, into the frigid wastes beyond Pluto, you'll see something strange.
Currently located between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune in the inner Solar System, 2006 SQ372 travels on an extremely elongated, 22,500 - year orbit around the Sun, that comes within 24 AUs of Sol before moving as far out as 1,600 AUs.
[Obviously, if they were any further away, or if the random supernovas blew up too early to become part of the solar system's dust cloud, or were traveling too fast to be captured by what would become part of the solar system's dust cloud, or were thrown out too slow to get here in time, or were formed but were inside another star gravity field and never thrown back into space, even more dust would be lost in space, but let's keep the problem easy.