Sentences with phrase «huge asteroid impacts»

A cataclysmic natural disaster, such as a huge asteroid impact or gamma ray burst, could obliterate the planet.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

Not exact matches

Mars, on the other hand, is thought to have been shaped mostly during the period of primordial accretion and the so - called Late Heavy Bombardment, when asteroids carved out massive impact basins and pushed up huge volcanoes.

An impact from an asteroid of this size would cause a huge amount of damage if it hit a populated area of the planet.

A huge asteroid is on a collision path toward earth actually bumping the moon before impact with the earth.