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    An ice giant is a giant planet composed mainly of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. There are two...
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  • helium. Ice giant, Ice Giant, ice giants or Ice Giants may also refer to: Hrímþursar (sometimes controversially translated as "frost giants"), beings...
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    which have different compositions, as ice giants. Both names are potentially misleading; the Solar System's giant planets all consist primarily of fluids...
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    are referred to as "ices"). For this reason, Uranus and Neptune are now often classified in the separate category of ice giants. Jupiter and Saturn consist...
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  • of the Nice model. It begins with five giant planets, the four that exist today plus an additional ice giant between Saturn and Uranus in a chain of...
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    absorption spectra of ice XI was studied in 2009 in preparation for searches for ice XI in space. It is theorized that the ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune...
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    Uranus (category Ice giants)
    cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or volatiles...
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  • jumping-Jupiter scenario specifies an evolution of giant-planet migration described by the Nice model, in which an ice giant (Uranus, Neptune, or an additional Neptune-mass...
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  • Ice Age Giants is a British television documentary series created and produced by BBC Natural History Unit, first shown in the UK on BBC Two and BBC Two...
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  • Look up giant, giants, Giant, or Giants in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A giant is a being of human appearance, sometimes of prodigious size and strength...
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