But the forces exerted by objects in the Kuiper belt (a collection of small bodies orbiting the sun beyond the orbit of Pluto), or by the galaxy as a whole, were also far too weak to be responsible.
Sun is shining, small breeze - absolutely a perfect Milford day.
It is colossal, 2.5 million times heavier than our Sun but crammed into a small region of space.
All of London's airports were open and reported only a small number of cancellations Tuesday as the sun came out and started melting away the snow and ice.
There is a small fire burning among a tinderbox of surrounding sun-weary trees, presumably built by a ranger in the predawn cold.
Asteroids are fairly small pieces of rock that go around the sun.
And then there are asteroids, which JPL describes as "a relatively small, inactive, rocky body orbiting the sun" often in what are called asteroid belts.
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Although there was no river view from our bedroom, a private sun terrace (accessed by a small circular staircase) allowed us to watch the rice barges drift down the Chao Phraya.
Leaving this annex area we passed through a metal door in an internal compound wall and came into a pleasant lawn area, in the middle of which was a small structure that was used by the residents as a sun room.
The coarse, almost particulate sun was showering in through the window, filling the small antiseptic space with a false radiance.
"Our" black hole is relatively small "only" four million times as massive as the sun.
One of the ironies of the power crisis is that, instead of profiting from increased prices, small generators that use renewable sources of energy such as the wind and the sun have been driven almost to collapse by the failure of the utilities to pay them.
But despite being millions of times more massive than our own Sun, the black hole at the centre of our galaxy would be relatively small in cosmic terms.
It describes a life form that inhabits a small nebula known as a Bok globule, which visits the solar system to refuel from the sun.
"Sire, do not talk to me of small projects, " said the Great Cham of baroque architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris.
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