Sentences with phrase «meteor causes»

The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that the blast from a meteor caused a 2.0 earthquake over Detroit and southeast Michigan on Tuesday night around 8:10 pm.

This meant only one thing: The groundbreaking Saturn mission had come to an end — the spacecraft had encountered the uppermost atmosphere of Saturn and, 45 seconds later, it burned up like an artificial meteor caused by the intense heat of hitting the atmosphere at 75,000 miles (120,700 kilometers) per hour.

First, because this planet has been around for a very long time and has sustained extreme variations in GHGs, without any kind of ghg - caused collapse — or even a hickup (meteors cause big hickups, but not OCO).

Not exact matches

Its all nice and fun to pretend that perhaps a meteor strike caused life to begin but you still fail to tell me who created that meteor, who created everything that was needed for life to exist... really... that had to of been a start to it all somewhere and I would love to see an atheist stumble on explaining only «what they claim to know» while refusing to believe what they don't know and can't see.

Too, it need be considered why Jupiter is where it is and its size, for it's huge size (mass) has a strong gravitational effect on meteors and asteroids going near it, causing them to either be absorbed by it or deflecting them away from the earth.

The cumulative weight of Bultmann's prodigious career, focused into the concrete programme of demythologizing, burst like a meteor into the void caused by the attrition of the Nazi ideology, the war and post-war collapse, and the passing of such leading New Testament scholars as Lietzmann, Büchsel, Behm, von Soden, Lohmeyer, Kittel, Dibelius, and Schniewind.

Today you look at craters on the earth with no hesitation in the belief they are in fact, craters caused by meteors.

When Sodom was burned we now know a meteor exploded over Asia that caused the destruction of many cities over the world.

YOU WROTE: When Sodom was burned we now know a meteor exploded over Asia that caused the destruction of many cities over the world.

Wondering about the diminished sun and «universal fog» over Europe and parts of America in 1783, Franklin proposed a comet, or a meteor, or an active Icelandic volcano as possible causes.

Asteroid detection and deflection has become a higher international priority since a surprise meteor exploded over the Russian region of Chelyabinsk earlier this year, causing injuries to nearly 1500 people.

Today's culprits are the same gases, although their increased presence is not the result of the meteor strikes or volcanoes that caused earlier catastrophes.

When these pebbles hit the atmosphere, they would have caused a brilliant week - long meteor storm visible throughout Europe and Asia.

And a near miss between Earth and Mars could cause much of the Martian crust to be ripped off by Earth's gravity, pulling thousands of meteors onto our planet.

For example, the meteor involved in the 2013 impact in Chelyabinsk, Russia, was 17 to 20 meters (roughly 55 to 65 feet) across and caused more than 1,000 injuries, inflicting burns and temporary blindness on people nearby.

The majority of the injuries in the Chelyabinsk impact were caused by broken glass sent flying into the faces of unknowing locals peering through their windows after the meteor's bright flash, he noted.

Basically meteor showers are caused by ice particles left behind by comets, and we run into them.

Most of the annual meteor showers are caused by debris left behind by comets.

When a meteor comes hurtling toward Earth, the high - pressure air in front of it seeps into its pores and cracks, pushing the body of the meteor apart and causing it to explode.

This isn't the first time a meteor or meteorite (a meteor that lands on Earth) has caused the ground to shake.

The earthshaking rumblings felt in Michigan last night weren't an earthquake, but rather vibrations from a booming noise caused by a meteor whizzing overhead, according to the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC).

Meteor researcher Margaret Campbell - Brown recaps the latest research into the cause of this morning's fireball over Chelyabinsk

Friction during the meteor's flight through the atmosphere caused the space rock to break into pieces.

The friction of the atmosphere causes intense heating that will cause a meteor to at least partially burn up or break apart.

Though there was never any danger of Siding Spring colliding with Mars or any of the orbiters, its tail contained gas and fine dust particles that, when they hit the Martian atmosphere and vaporized, caused what was probably a spectacular meteor shower, though one that no one could see except for the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers.

The film's second half takes place almost entirely inside the Shimmer, where the team encounters the strange mutations that the meteor strike has caused on the surrounding environment as they press inward toward a lighthouse that they believe holds the answers they seek.

Violence: Characters experience moments of peril when meteors strike the planet causing damage and fire.

Annihilation is a women - on - a-mission film — a five - strong team, each member with a different skill set (a biologist, a physicist, a geologist, a paramedic and a psychologist), are sent to investigate a meteor that's causing a strange phenomenon in an area of Florida.

A meteor that crashed to Earth has unleashed a terrible force, which is beginning to cause people on Capitol Hill to act strangely.

As it turns out, the meteor also causes children with powers to appear that become known as Genestella.

After a meteor crashes to earth in an event known as «The Invertia» which causes horrendous damage to the population centres of the world, individual countries join together to form the Integrated Enterprise Foundation (IEF).

Grow Up's story setup is simple and reminiscent of the first: an accident with a meteor belt causes M.O.M. (the mothership) to crash into a moon and be torn up into pieces, so B.U.D. and assistant P.O.D. must explore and climb through a new world to gather the fragments needed to put M.O.M. back into working order and get off the planet.

During his hero ability (Meteor Strike), Doomfist will leap to a great height before propelling himself to the ground, causing heavy damage to any nearby enemies.

Theories about the meteor first began with Tilted Towers as the main target, but a recent leak by a community member told players that Dusty Depot would be the intended target of the mass destruction caused by the meteor, and now it has finally been confirmed.

The world, which isn't War World, has been devastated by meteors, causing massive deaths around the world.

The first is a «Cataclysm» variant of the core game's Orbital Drill map which floods the map with lava and causes meteors to fall from the sky.

A meteor fragment has fallen to the ground and has caused a massive uprising among all the world's robots.

Much as I sypathize with your frustration Ms Goldman, I think that the meteor strike of 60 million years ago (along with whatever the cause of the other half - dozen mass extinctions) qualifies as a worse thing that human excess — at least so far.

Bobzorunkle says: «In the past, various theories were put forward on the causes of earthquakes: the Gods are angry; herd of elephants; meteors striking the earth; volcano activity; plate tectonics; elastic rebound theory; etc., etc..

Given obviously irregular character of all historical data regarding climate, it is a tough sell to start with an assumption that everything is in a global equilibrium, and only spontaneous external events like eruptions or large meteors are the cause of that variability.

From what data exists about previous peroids of rapid climate change (i.e. climate change caused by an intrinsic mechanism such as a meteor impact, massive volcanic activity or human activity, as opposed to sun cycles), it seems that climate does show such behavior too.

Granted that period was caused by the meteor off the coast of the yucatan but many of the changes were similar to the ones that are merely starting now.

I told her I thought that mass extinction was also due to runaway GW, but that perhaps the meteor & «winter» caused the sea to recede, exposing methane hydrates that triggered runaway GW.

Chesapeake Bay is the site of an ancient impact crater, caused by a comet or meteor.

Then throw in massive volcanic eruptions and huge continent wide brush fires caused by volcanoes or meteor showers (both theories I have seen in the literature) and you have many events that could cause climate disruption on a large scale.