How to Use inner planet in a Sentence

inner planet

noun

• If those planets are rocky, their surfaces are hot enough to melt tin, zinc, and on that inner planet, maybe even iron.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012
• The star's inner planets have orbits that resemble Jupiter's Galilean moons.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2017
• It’s the only inner planet whose surface hasn’t been explored by a robot.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• But our inner planets seem to have formed with little of the element or lost it early in their history.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
• How the light from the distant star flickers and mutates over time will provide a wealth of information about any inner planets.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 Apr. 2018
• Among the inner planets, only Mars has known Trojans—10 of them, the biggest measuring about 2 kilometers across.
  — Richard Lovett, Science | AAAS, 20 Oct. 2017
• The inner dots represent the inner planets, while the orange dot represents Jupiter.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2018
• BepiColombo will also be using the inner planets for help.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2018
• 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
• The standard model is humanity's own system: The inner planets are rocky and solid, outer planets are gaseous.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2019
• A century ago, our solar system seemed split into two tidy groups: the terrestrial inner planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars — and the giant, gaseous outer worlds.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
• Planet Nine’s gravitational influence could even serve as a solution to the long-standing mystery of why the sun’s axis of spin is tilted six degrees askew to the orbits of the inner planets.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2018
• As our solar system formed, the early sun blasted the inner planets with radiation and high-speed plasma, which drove off most of the gases (hydrogen, water vapor and CO2).
  — Scott Denning, Washington Post, 4 May 2018
• Both worlds may have migrated early in their lives, which would have shifted their positions around the sun and sent barrages of water-rich comets cascading toward Earth and other inner planets.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• The other inner planet, Mercury, is also visible this week just before sunrise.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• Although past observations have confirmed the result of planetary engulfment when sun-like stars expand – up to 1,000 times the original size – and engulf the system's inner planets, astronomers had not seen it until now.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 4 May 2023
• Earth, which is protected by a thick, but livable atmosphere enabled by our own internal energy source—the spinning dynamo of our molten iron core—is the only inner planet with adequate protection from the sun.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2020
• This conflict between the outer and inner planets is a defining point for a majority of the novel series: the books look closely at how massive imbalances of power and wealth can play out in new social and technological contexts.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 24 May 2018
• The lunar rocks ultimately tell us of a violent chapter in solar system history, when a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment rained down space rocks, heavily scarring the inner planets.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• The instability also scattered oddball moons and asteroids and triggered smaller bodies to pummel the inner planets.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 21 Jan. 2020
• Instead, all planetary systems fortunate enough to host a gas giant in their outskirts should automatically have water-rich material falling on their rocky inner planets.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian, 20 June 2018
• Two centuries later, astronomers attributed Mercury’s slightly peculiar orbit to the gravitational forces from an unseen inner planet, dubbed Vulcan.
  — Ramin Skibba, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2017
• Accordingly, unlike the inner planets that move quickly and govern daily activities, Uranus defines major periods of life with its prolonged revolutions.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 26 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024