Sentences with phrase «most known asteroids»

Not exact matches

Since his facility boasts one of the most powerful privately owned telescopes in the country, he has also worked with NASA on projects like tracking the orbits of hundreds of faintly visible known asteroids to determine whether they are on a collision course with Earth.

Morever, because Bennu has a slight - but - significant chance of striking our planet late in the 22nd century, it is also one of the most threatening asteroids known to humanity.

That feature — in which the crust thickness drops from 30 to about 10 miles (50 to 20 kilometers) over a large area that is the most visible feature on Mars — has been known to astronomers for more than 30 years and was long suspected to be due to an asteroid impact that flung most of the crust out the area.

The property results from the way they form: When a giant star runs out of fuel and can no longer fight against the crushing force of its gravity, its core shrinks to the size of an asteroid, and most of its mass is blasted away in a titanic explosion called a supernova.

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If they do put your bones in a museum of the most successful species ever to inhabit the earth (for millions of years, and not overpopulate it to boot) before being destroyed by a once in a millenium event known as the asteroid hit to the Gulf of Mexico just off of the Yucatan Peninsula, would you prefer to be placed with the herbavores, carnivores or omnivores?