outer planet

noun

: any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune whose orbits lie beyond the asteroid belt

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Furthermore, the two planets are orbiting in a resonance, with the inner planet circling its star twice as often as the outer planet. —

Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2019 Artist’s rendering of binary system Kepler-47, with outer planet Kepler-47c in the foreground and inner planet Kepler-47b in the bottom right corner can be tough. —

Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2012 Despite these changes, the outer planet seems to reside continuously in the habitable zone of the system. —

Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019 Opposition is when Earth passes directly between the sun and an outer planet. —

Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Sep. 2022 Uranus is an outer planet that affects our long-term goals. —

Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 23 Aug. 2022 The first space mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno gets to with a few thousand miles of Jupiter’s cloud-tops at the poles. —

Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 May 2022 And the latest report, released today, has put this outer planet front and center. —

Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022 So Siegelman, a researcher at San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, turned her eye to the latest detailed images of the outer planet. —

Ramin Skibba, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022 See More

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