NOUN
- any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)
How To Use gas giant In A Sentence
- It will spend four years in orbit around the gas giant, exploring the planet and its rings and moons.
- Simply provide us with the exact mass, orbital speed and orbital distance of an undiscovered gas giant planet orbiting a star near our solar system.
- Carbon dioxide, one of the telltale signs that a planet may be able to support life, has been spotted in the atmosphere of a gas giant orbiting a star 63 light years from Earth.
- If a protoplanet was large enough, soon enough, its gravity would pull in the nebular gas, and it would become a gas giant. If not, it would remain a rocky or icy body.
- With all those Masonic symbols on its cover, I figured that CULTS, CONSPIRACIES AND SECRET SOCIETIES stood a small chance of being captured by THE LOST SYMBOL's commercial gravity, much as a tiny planetesimal can get pulled into a gas giant's orbit. Boing Boing
- In the Ison Corridor, by a bright star called Anoat, there circled a smaller star called Bespin circled in turn by a fat and many mooned gas giant. Archive 2005-04-17
- It seems possible that the upper atmospheres of the gas giants have too much ionization, so the processes that break up large molecules outmatch the processes that create them. Could there be Life on Jupiter and Saturn's Moons? | Universe Today
- Gazpromneft, an oil subsidiary of the gas giant Gazprom, is preparing to drill for oil in the Arctic's Pechora Sea, even as environmentalists complain that the drilling platform is outdated and the company is not ready to deal with potential accidents. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- The term Jovian came from planet Jupiter, which describes the other gas giants in our solar system which are like Jupiter. The Times of India
- Many of these bodies collected together to form the cores of the gas giants.
