Sentence examples for rocky circle from inspiring English sources

We used to pass Carfin Grotto in the car all the time – from the road you saw an open, rocky circle with Our Lady's statue standing high up in a niche, a Scottish recreation of Lourdes.

Outline a rocky shaped circle or something that resembles a cookie.

Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centhe for Asmallhysics unveiled the small, rocky world circling the star Kepler 438 in January this year.

NEAR Shoemaker marks the beginning of intensified asteroid studies in coming years as scientists using Earth-based instruments and spacecraft try to uncover the nature of the tens of thousands of rocky bodies circling the Sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter, and elsewhere.

Using measurements from Nasa's Kepler space observatory, scientists led by Erik Petigura at the University of California, Berkeley, estimated that 22% of our galaxy's sun-like stars have rocky planets circling them in the zone where they get roughly the same amount of light energy as Earth receives from the sun.

By his retirement in 1973, Tombaugh had confirmed the length of Mercury's day, measured the swirling vortex of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and built a telescope in Ecuador to search for rocky debris circling the Earth.

But much farther away, in regions long presumed to be the realm of comets and other icy bodies, there could be billions of rocky orbs circling the sun, a new study suggests.

Leconte did use climate data collected for Earth science in the model, but he took out some of the more specific information to create a general model for rocky planets circling sunlike stars.

Asteroids--rocky bodies circling the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter--are thought to be leftovers from the formation of the solar system.

Ceres is the dominant member of the band of rocky debris that circles the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

It will also bring the Rocky story full circle in the most poignant way imaginable.