Sentence examples for of the icy objects from inspiring English sources

Computer simulations show that some of the icy objects in the outermost reaches of our solar system may actually be alien invaders that originally orbited another star.

Most of the icy objects we've observed are mainly water.

It contains some terrifying cliffs, but is the flattest, most boulder-free location the mission team could find in its survey of the icy object.

DR. TYSON -- I think if it were still ice, we'd still say, orbiting with the icy objects.

The particles coagulate with each other to form a spanning network throughout the molten layer inside the icy object.

Bannister sketched a scenario in which the icy object was born with a more regular elliptical orbit.

However, the rocky material contained in comets includes radioactive isotopes, whose decay can provide an important source of heat, possibly significantly altering the internal structure of these icy objects after their formation.

Scientists estimate that there could be several billion of these icy objects bigger than one-half mile wide.

So, too, were writers and scientists associated with Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the region of small, icy objects beyond Neptune's orbit to which the dwarf planet belongs.

Since 1992, telescope scans of the sky have detected nearly 1000 bodies in the Kuiper belt, a band of icy objects past the orbit of Neptune.

Showers of meteors periodically pass through the area where the Earth is, as gravitational disturbances upset the Oort Cloud, which is a shell of icy objects on the edge of the solar system.