Science news articles about 'solar system objects'

... bodies (except satellites of the major planets) in the Solar System. The CSBN will be working with the IAU WGPSN to ... new plutoids to ensure that no dwarf planet shares the name of another small Solar ...

... 've always thought that these are outer solar system objects," he said. "But maybe cometary ices formed much closer in, after the inner part of the solar nebula cooled off, and incorporated the high- ...

... that Pasachoff's team uses both in his eclipse studies and in his studies of Pluto and other outer-solar-system objects, in which he has collaborated with Mike Brown, Caltech's ...

A planetary map-mapmaker targets Mercury and the moons of Saturn.

... very unusual orbit compared to normal solar system objects – it's almost 60 degrees out of alignment ... is made up of bits of debris and ice left over when the solar system was created. Langill adds he ...

... Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory by Douglas Rumble ruled out that possibility. "A number of solar system objects including parent bodies of meteorites, planets, moons, and asteroids have ...

... .com) -- Jupiter is sporting a glowing bruise after getting unexpectedly whacked by a small solar system object, according to astronomers using the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i. A ...