Examples of protoplanet in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The protoplanet's star is estimated to be a relatively young 2 million years old, the same age at which our now 4.6 billion-year-old solar system saw planet formation. — Wyatte Grantham-philips, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022 In September, Morbidelli and his colleagues published an article in Nature Astronomy based on studies of the protoplanet Vesta that suggested how planetesimals would explain the current configuration of the solar system. — Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021 Scientists have long agreed that the Moon formed when a protoplanet, called Theia, struck Earth in its infancy some 4.5 billion years ago. — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2021 Such a dry, large protoplanet would have separated into layers with an iron-depleted core and an iron-rich mantle, Desch says, some 2% to 3.5% denser than present-day Earth. — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2021 Such an event would have seen Jupiter absorb the protoplanet, which would have been 10 times Earth’s mass, causing their two dense cores to combine and diffuse after only 10 hours, as seen in the simulation above. — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 14 Aug. 2019 Scientific consensus about how the moon formed is that billions of years ago, a protoplanet crashed into Earth and the pieces of it revolved around the Earth to form the moon. — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019 Smaller objects, including Earth-sized protoplanets, would disintegrate in the atmosphere before reaching the core. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2019 One possible explanation is a cataclysmic head-on collision some 4.5 billion years ago between a young Jupiter and one of the many large protoplanets that likely populated the early solar system, planetary scientists report today in Nature. — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 14 Aug. 2019 See More

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