Sentences with phrase «for asteroid»

As for the asteroid: There are a few large craters in the world that are said to be the results of large meteorites — we could reclassify them as asteroids... Even with that, there have been few detected «asteroid» collisions in the past 4 billion years.

While there's some truth to the comparison, it's also worth recalling that the dinosaurs had a pretty good 200 - million - year run and would still be around but for that asteroid.

For asteroid impacts that may be sufficient... for global warming it may not be.

They would have become intelligent, eventually, were it not for an asteroid collision.

I would consider it very doubtful that the small mammals that scurried around the dinosaurs would have evolved into the vast panopoly of mammal species [including humans] were it not for the asteroid that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous 65 million years ago.

The scientific reality is that it's all but impossible for asteroid fields to be that dense, as the constant violent collisions both start breaking the asteroids down into space dust while simultaneously spreading the asteroid field outward.

Set your nav for the asteroid fields and your phasers to kill!

For Asteroid Challenge, the gamepad is being used solely for off TV game play.

There are currently no trailers available for Asteroid Base.

There are far more images available for Asteroid Base, but these are the ones we felt would be most useful to you.

However this film becomes so painful that you start to pray for the asteroid to hit sooner.

By the time we reach the lighthouse that signals ground zero for the asteroid strike, Annihilation indulges in a wackadoo climax that filters Lena's personal history through a combination of 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Fountain.

«The predicted mean time between major asteroid collisions [for each asteroid] is about 5 % of the age of the solar system.

NASA Wednesday announced more details in its plan for its Asteroid Redirect Mission, which in the mid-2020s will test a number of new capabilities needed for future human expeditions to deep space, including to Mars.

``... we lack compelling scenarios leading to the origin of iron meteorites... Early solar system collisions have been called upon to excavate this iron [from the cores of the largest asteroids], although numerical impact models have found this task difficult to achieve, particularly when it is required to occur many dozens of times, yet not a single time for asteroid Vesta.»

Alan Cahill ran Project Gandalf to assess the feasibility of using remotely operated robotic telescopes for asteroid observations.

But the Spitzer data for the white dwarf PG 0010 +280 did not fit well with models for asteroid disks, leading the team to look at other possibilities.

For Asteroid Day, Bruce Betts reviews 5 steps needed to prevent asteroid impacts, as well as how The Planetary Society is involved in those.

A complex shape for the asteroid and a bizarre orbit for the moon will be matters of discussion for the scientific community.

In April, the outfit successfully launched its first prototype probe, which tested the avionics, control systems and software that will be used for asteroid mining missions.

The team has calculated that this precarious - sounding orbit is actually fairly stable and safe for the asteroid.

Boslough accepts the fatality estimates for climate change (the WHO's estimate was made for the agency by epidemiologist Tony McMichael, of the Australian National University's National Center for Epidemiology and Population Health) as well as those for asteroid impacts, the latter of which are based lately on work by Harris.

A recent U.S. government report proposed seven steps for an asteroid survival plan.

However, there is no line item for the asteroid redirect mission, and the agency has delayed making a decision on choosing an approach for the mission (whether to snatch a boulder from a larger asteroid, for instance, or to bag up an entire asteroid and bring it to Earth).

The B612 Foundation — named for the asteroid that was home to The Little Prince — today announced their plan to build, fly and operate the first private space telescope: an asteroid hunter called Sentinel.

Vesta is large for an asteroid, leading to its classification as a «protoplanet,» a celestial body that, it is thought, could have developed into a planet.

«The damage on the ground is expected to be zero,» writes astronomer Andrea Milan of the University of Pisa in Italy, on the Minor Planet Mailing List run for asteroid and comet researchers (groups.yahoo.com/group/mpml/).

«This is an exciting milestone for the Asteroid Redirect Mission,» said NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot.

The B612 Foundation — named for the asteroid that was home to the prince in The Little Prince — has announced a plan to build, fly and operate the first private space telescope.

The Near - Earth Object Program Office reports that, with current asteroid surveys already in place, about two potential candidates suitable for the asteroid redirect mission are discovered every year.

Does Chodas think there is a perfect target asteroid out there for an asteroid redirect mission?

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

And of those, only a portion of the new asteroids discovered is destined to have the right stuff for an asteroid retrieval mission — the right size and the right orbit to satisfy mission requirements for the asteroid redirect mission.

That's because the lunar crust is thicker there, making it harder for asteroid impacts to break through and release magma.

NASA also released a request for information (RFI) that invites industry and potential partners to offer ideas on accomplishing NASA's goal to locate, redirect, and explore an asteroid, as well as find and plan for asteroid threats.

A new screening process for the asteroid redirect mission has been set up which regularly checks the small - body database, looking for potential new candidates for the ARM mission.

Hopkins is a lead researcher with the Orion crew capsule, a potential craft for the asteroid mission.

That led to his founding an organization named for the asteroid that was the home of Saint - Exupéry's Little Prince — the B612 foundation.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Denver -: The «Adapting Commercial Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall thrusters.

With global warming, the increasing availability of nuclear weapons to unstable nations, and the growing possibility of bioterror, we won't necessarily have to wait around for an asteroid to make life on Mars suddenly seem appealing.

But she is encouraged by the outpouring of enthusiasm for the Asteroid Redirect Mission, both within NASA and among the public.

Or would scientists who believe we desperately need to increase funding for asteroid detection in the solar system be our modern version of Noah?

Those distinct chemistries imply distinct origin stories for asteroids: One group formed from grist that began near the current location of the asteroid belt.

The Pan-Starrs-1 telescope will scan the skies for asteroids and comets that could wipe out life on Earth.

The threat to our security is in the form of asteroids too small to be detected at long range but large enough to cause major catastrophes; NASA is now searching for asteroids one kilometer or larger in diameter, the impact of which could have global consequences.

Several new efforts are afoot to scan the skies for asteroids, and we have a plethora of suggestions for how they might be deflected (New Scientist, 26 January, p 42).

The landing part is especially tricky for asteroids and comets, which have low gravitational pull.

The B612 Foundation wants to put a telescope in orbit around the sun to look for asteroids that might hit Earth.

«When I began surveying for asteroids and comets in 1992, a near - Earth object discovery was a rare event,» said Tim Spahr, director of the Minor Planet Center.

Asteroid Univofutah initially was numbered 391795 because it was the 391,795 th minor planet — the term that astronomers use for asteroids — to be discovered and receive a number.