Sentence examples for small planetary from inspiring English sources

Within the past year the group determined the size of a small planetary body that is among the brightest objects in the solar system.

In these earliest stages of terrestrial accretion heat was generated by three possible phenomena: (1) the decay of short-lived radioactive isotopes, (2) the gravitational energy released from the sinking of metals, or (3) the impact of small planetary bodies (or planetesimals).

"This is very exciting work," says small planetary body specialist Dan Durda of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Functioning dynamos in small planetary bodies appear to be a common outcome of the accretion process (Monteux et al. 2011).

Exploration missions for small planetary bodies such as asteroids and comets have received significant attentions in recent years.

New Horizons brought eyes to a small planetary body deep into the solar system and made the world fall in love with Pluto all over again.

The scientists studied this timescale by looking at how long Earth took to "accrete", or grow, as smaller "planetary embryos" smashed together to form it.

Compositional convection, however, can be very different from the scenario described above in smaller planetary bodies or for higher sulfur contents than characteristic of the eutectic composition.

According to MPC director Brian Marsden, it is the smallest Jovian satellite known so far--probably less than 5 kilometers across--and may be even the smallest planetary satellite in the solar system.

It will work in the infrared spectrum, which will allow it to "probe down to smaller planetary sizes than Hubble, to roughly two-to-three thans largEarthan Earth, more Neptune-scale planets," says Mountain.

NGC 5979, a planetary nebula of apparent magnitude 12.3, has a blue-green hue at higher magnifications, while Henize 2-138 is a smaller planetary nebula of magnitude 11.0.