Sentences with phrase «older asteroid»

Older asteroid families are harder to find, but this V signature can expose the age of these clusters.

By aggregating the sizes of the modern dark asteroids, researchers suggest the original dark planetesimals formed about 4 billion years ago, making this one of the oldest asteroid families in the main belt; most asteroid families are thought to have formed about 1 billion years ago.

Identifying the very oldest asteroid families, those billions of years old, is challenging, because over time, a family spreads out.

Astronomers have identified the oldest asteroid families and, by process of elimination, the oldest intact asteroids in the main belt.

Delbo's study provides evidence for the Max Planck Institute's gravitational collapse hypothesis by suggesting the oldest asteroids started out large, and then became smaller through collisions and other destructive forces happening in the ancient solar system.

Not exact matches

While I no longer believe the earth is just 6,000 years old, I still live in the tension of unanswered questions about the universe, and death, and brains, and Neanderthals, and whatever Neil deGrasse Tyson's got to say on public television about the earth getting burned up by the sun or our species going extinct after an asteroid hits.

Asteroid impacts that are over 6k years old: real.

If an asteroid strike was about to obliterate Earth, the Daily Mail would report it as «Attack on the middle class» and the Telegraph, with its older readership, as «Attack on pensioners».

The craters may be up to 4 billion years old, from a time when asteroids were heavily bombarding the early Solar System, says team member William McKinnon, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Even the old distinction between comets (dirty snowballs) and asteroids (hard rocks) has become blurred.

As the CEO and chief asteroid miner of Planetary Resources, Inc. in Redmond, Washington, the 42 - year - old aerospace engineer is looking to identify how the materials in near - Earth asteroids — namely metals and water — can be used to one day facilitate long - haul space missions and travel, and even save the Earth's resources from being overused.

The team used a new search technique that also identified the oldest known asteroid family, which extends throughout the inner region of the main asteroid belt.

«Primordial asteroids discovered: Discoveries include a void in the main belt and the oldest family of asteroids.»

The team used a novel technique, searching asteroid data from the inner region of the belt for old, dispersed families.

Like the asteroids, stars, and old bicycle parts that slowly, silently circle a black hole, sucked ever inward, we earthbound humans could be forgiven for losing hope.

Researchers think that these meteorites, which were knocked off asteroids that formed beyond Jupiter, are among the oldest objects in the solar system.

During the commissioning phase, the GPI team observed a variety of targets, ranging from asteroids in our solar system, to an old star near its death.

A 4 - billion - year - old meteorite reveals evidence that an asteroid had a dynamo - driven magnetic field

The discovery also casts doubt on the decades - old theory that the circular Procellarum region is a basin, or giant crater, created when a large asteroid slammed into the moon.

The offspring of those fleeting compounds are locked in the oldest meteorites; a hyperactive sun would help explain why the isotopes existed just as asteroids formed.

OLDEST NEIGHBORS They may not look a day over a billion, but asteroids 234 Barbara, 387 Aquitania, and 980 Anacostia (much like the asteroids drawn below) have mineral signatures putting them back 4.55 billion years.

After the discovery of 2007 NS2, astronomers found the asteroid in old images from the LONEOS and LINEAR near - Earth object surveys dating back to 1998.

Those results set the age boundary for the oldest terrains on Mercury to be contemporary with the so - called Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), a period of intense asteroid and comet impacts recorded in lunar and asteroidal rocks and by the numerous craters on the Moon, Earth, and Mars, as well as Mercury.

As a rule of thumb, older surfaces have been exposed to impacting bodies (meteoroids, asteroids, and comets) for a longer period of time than younger surfaces.

This artist's conception shows the immediate aftermath of a large asteroid impact around NGC 2547 - ID8, a 35 million - year - old star.

Given the angle of this family's V - shaped leg, they estimate this primordial asteroid family is 4 billion years old.

The Good Dinosaur asks the generations - old question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct?

Sunshine throws at its players more than just the usual celestial complications — an asteroid here, a punctured wall there — instead grinding its drama mostly from good old - fashioned cabin fever.

«The Good Dinosaur» asks the generations - old question: What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct?

If you are old enough to have played Asteroids on the Atari back in the day you will remember what fun it was.

Instead it is scattered with asteroids and remnants of satellites and old space stations.

The levels are (almost) randomly generated, with various unpredictable events (such as asteroid fields, lasers, meteor showers, old battlefields, and more lasers... wait, did we mention lasers?).

Gradius and Asteroids were great games, but they're very old games, so the reference may be lost on most.

When I grow up, I had many systems, starting with good old Atari 2600, which I experienced such games as PONG, Space Invaders, PAC - Man, Asteroids, Adventure, the abysmal E.T, Frogger and many more classics.

You float around — much like in the old classic Asteroid — and have a boost button to spin yourself across the map or out of upcoming danger.

Set inside an old - school arcade cabinet, this grid - bashed shooter is like a hybrid of Asteroids and Zelda, sending youthrough a series of sectors as you blast enemies, collect crystals and upgrade your ship.

Atari once tried to reboot one of its older franchises, Asteroids, as a AAA - ish game of sorts, which deviated too far from the game's roots.

There's the one that rushes you, the wave blaster, the one that splits like old - school asteroids.

And with recent years seeing Hollywood take inspiration from such disparate properties as Battleship (out next year), Stretch Armstrong and Asteroids, it seems that the dusty arcades of yesteryear are becoming as inspiring as old board games and half - forgotten toys.

Developed by Nate Schmold and a small team of game wizards, Cosmochoria is described as a love letter to and re-imagining of, old school action - arcade games like Asteroids, Mario Bros and Donkey Kong.

The gamers that are old enough to remember the classic days of Pac - Man and Asteroids will watch this doc with a smile on their face.

Seems simple enough but once you realize that there are asteroids and the possibility of a changing world around you, it creates a fast twitch game that brings back old memories of video games of old.

Gameplay is as mentioned, a throwback to some of the older arcade titles like Asteroids, where you steer your ship around the vast land of space ranging from 8 different galaxies each different than the last fending off enemies and using your left trigger to sweep around a planet in a «lasso» formation to put the planet under your control through the different rounds of that level taking as much territory as you can from the enemy.

Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kristen Lorello, NY, and Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and included in the following group exhibitions: Plus One, curated by Melanie Kress, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, [Old / New] Psychedelic Providence, curated by Jamilee Lacy and sponsored by Providence College Galleries, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL, and You Don't Bring Me Flowers, curated by Quang Bao, 68 Projects, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, Germany.

Robots and asteroids are likely threats, but we'll probably be wiped out by good, old - fashioned disease