Sentence examples for typical rocky from inspiring English sources

Phoebe appears to be more akin to comets than to asteroids and typical rocky moons, the researchers said.

This assumes that all the prerequisites are found on typical rocky planets with iron cores.

But the coast itself, particularly near the lighthouse, is typical of the rocky cliffs that fall away from Highway 1 along much of California's western edge: a vertigo-inducing view dramatically reminding you that you have indeed reached the end of the continent.

Most species avoid locations with strong currents or waves, and typical sites include rocky overhangs, crevices and caves, steep slopes of continental shelves, and in the bottoms of deep oceans.

Plotting the mass results against the planets' diameters, the researchers found that the five smallest exoplanets all less than 1.6 times Earth's diameter lay on the curve typical of a largely rocky planet with an iron core, the same curve that Earth and Venus sit on.

In addition, she is identified with Papa, the goddess of the earth and wife of Wākea (space), which is appropriate because 2003 EL61 is thought to be composed almost entirely of solid rock, without the thick ice mantle over a small rocky core typical of other known Kuiper belt objects.

The resulting terrain is much rockier than typical lunar or martian landing sites.

After a rocky start several years ago typical of many new schools, Mr. Canada's two charter schools, featured as unqualified successes in "Waiting for 'Superman,' " the new documentary, again hit choppy waters this summer, when New York State made its exams harder to pass.

After a rocky start earlier this decade typical of many new schools, Mr. Canada's two charter schools, featured as unqualified successes in "Waiting for 'Superman,' " the new documentary, again hit choppy waters this summer, when New York State made its exams harder to pass.

"Hot Thing" barely made it on as a bonus track, but features production by Pharrell and a verse from New York's it-thing rapper A$AP Rocky, who brings his typical confidence to the song.

The most widely accepted theory is that Mercury originally had a metal-silicate ratio similar to common chondrite meteorites, thought to be typical of the Solar System's rocky matter, and a mass approximately 2.25 times its current mass.