Sentence examples for shell of icy from inspiring English sources

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.

The solar system is actually surrounded by a shell of icy bodies that extends to about this distance.

A giant impact is more likely to have occurred near the start of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago, when the Kuiper belt the distant shell of icy bodies in which Pluto resides harbored more potential impactors than it does today.

It was born in the Oort cloud, a shell of scattered icy objects right at the outermost edge of the Solar System.

Mr. Khodorkovsky said Mr. Putin's "love for dogs is the only sincere, kind feeling breaking through the icy shell of the 'national symbol' of the beginning of the 2000s".

Scientists have found tantalizing evidence of a liquid water ocean swirling under the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa, Nasa announced on Monday, with new evidence of water plumes bursting out into space.

Perhaps a more promising target lies under the icy shell of Europa, Jupiter's moon.

The tough icy shell of Saturn's largest moon Titan is apparently far stronger than previously thought, researchers say.

The icy shell of Europa's surface might shift occasionally, displacing the area of the alien world that used to be its equator.

Scientists believe that oceans that could support life are churning under the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa, for example.

This object, which he named Nemesis, would, once every 26 million years, pass through the Oort cloud, the shell of over a trillion icy objects believed to be the source of long-period comets that orbit at thousands of times Pluto's distance from the Sun.