In fact, I'm seeing that this discussion that we're talking about - the international discussion on planetary characteristics - will have wonderful opportunities for the public to, you know, watch and to learn about what we know about our own solar system, what we know about planetary bodies within the solar system.
Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive of the French nuclear giant Areva, hinted last week during a meeting in Forbes offices that Areva is developing a hybrid solar power plant concept that combines a solar thermal system with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels.
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Cheng says the comet is likely making its first visit to the inner solar system from the Oort cloud, a reservoir of hundreds of millions of comets encircling our solar system at a distance of about a light year.
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Moreover, Vesta may have survived intact from the solar system's origin, despite having been pummeled by impacts so violent that they sprayed the solar system with buckshot blasts of debris.
We have basically the building blocks of the solar system preserved in this sort of cosmic library, if you will, for the entire age of the solar system and preserved at very low temperatures.
We believe that in its early history - remember, Earth and Mars, the solar system, 4.6 billion years old. 4.6 billion years old the age of Earth and Mars and the solar system.
The "new" Solar System agreed at the IAU's General Assembly has eight planets - Mercury to Neptune - and at least three dwarf planets: Pluto, Eris and the largest asteroid in the Solar System, Ceres.
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But most of the history of the solar system--this is why the comet is so important--most of the history of this comet was spent out beyond Neptune, out where Pluto is at the very edge of the solar system, what we call the Kuiper belt.
And not just within our own solar system, but other solar systems, which this definition specifically excludes.
As a result, a system using wind and solar has to be built with sufficient system capacity from conventional sources to be handle the system full load without the wind and solar systems.
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He believes the whole Saturn system is an excellent model for the early Solar System.
"We are starting to see a whole new type of planetary system, which is unlike anything in our own solar system, " said astronomer William Welsh at San Diego State University, who presented the Kepler findings Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
"We are starting to see a whole new type of planetary system, which is unlike anything in our own solar system, " said William Welsh, an astronomer at San Diego State University, who presented the Kepler findings Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
Solar Energy Storage: Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a system for converting solar energy to chemical energy and, subsequently, to thermal energy.
The Ivanpah solar tower, formally known as the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, is the largest solar thermal power facility currently under construction.
Skyline Solar has come up with a solar system that incorporates large amounts of reflective metal that focus the sun on high-efficiency silicon solar cells.
Mr. EICHER: We can't really understand the solar system and how it got going unless we can really understand the origins and the conditions that happened when the solar nebula, this cloud of gas and dust, contracted down and the star turned on and the planets got going.
On Thursday, Suntech Power Holdings announced it had been selected to supply 5, 445 solar panels for a 1 megawatt solar electricity system for retailer The North Face, demonstrating that solar photovoltaic installations continue to be popular among commercial and industrial properties.
Asteroid 99942 Apophis is a primordial relic from the formation of our Solar System.
Diamonds are made of carbon, after all--the fourth most common element in the solar system.
The suburbs of the solar system are filled with small, icy objects, including Pluto.
So there are eight planets in the solar system, not nine and not 10.
In our Solar System, we believe the Sun has accreted about two-and-a-half Earth-masses of rocky material.
Those investors in turn receive a 30% federal tax credit for each solar system installed.
Once their missions were accomplished, they carried on into the outer reaches of the solar system.
NASA's study of NEOs provides important clues to understanding the origin of our solar system.
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Early on, Moskovitz says the entire solar system probably resembled one giant asteroid belt.
It joins more than 150 planets discovered outside our solar system in recent years.
It also found that Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, has a magnetic field.
Her theory rests on a new picture of the evolution of the early solar system.
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