Sentence examples for massive enough that from inspiring English sources

What happens there is that for radii between 1.5 and two Earth radii, the planet becomes massive enough that it starts to accumulate a very thick hydrogen and helium atmosphere, so it starts to resemble the gas giants of our solar system rather than anything else that we see as terrestrial".

They are one of the few high-energy particles to reach the ground, because they are unique: they are massive enough that the electrons in atmospheric atoms don't stop them, and (unlike hadrons) they don't interact via the strong force, and so they rarely collide with the atomic nucleus.

Peanut butter cookies: The Buttery's take on peanut butter cookies, massive enough that you almost need two hands to hold them, is at once rich, sweet and perfectly crumbly.

(6) This is typically an order of magnitude higher the filtering mass, showing that not all halos that are massive enough to allow the gas to collapse are also massive enough to facilitate cooling and star formation.

The theorists needed to come up with particles that were massive enough to balance the scales of nature and yet interacted only very weakly with ordinary matter.

Gas giants are probably born further out, beyond some 400 million kilometers, where ice crystals can develop and accumulate into planetary cores that are massive enough to attract large amounts of gas from the disk.

A planet is an astronomical object orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.

These structures resembled aggregated protein conglomerates that were massive enough to settle to the surface due to gravity.

They just weren't massive enough to exert a gravitational influence that could clear their orbits of smaller, rocky debris – hence their status as dwarf planets.

Thus, the galaxy must contain some mysterious matter that makes it massive enough to keep hold of these stars.Such matter would pervade the entire universe.

Stars are giant, usually symmetrical balls of radiant gas, while the definition of both a planet like Jupiter and a plutoid like Pluto is a celestial object orbiting a star that is itself massive enough to be largely round.