Sentences with phrase «small asteroids hit»

Small asteroids hit our planet's atmosphere with surprising frequency.

Not exact matches

So if we're safe from the really big asteroids, and the smaller, more frequent ones are likely to hit without major incident, what's the problem?

In two talks today at the Division for Planetary Sciences in Pasadena, California, astronomers report that a small asteroid located in the inner asteroid belt between those two planets took a major hit early last year.

Millions of them are large enough to do serious damage in an impact, including the asteroid Apophis, which has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2036.

Zhao said this takes away the possibility of Jupiter - sized planets causing asteroids that might hit or change the orbits of smaller, Earth - like planets.

In 1908 a small asteroid (perhaps 50 meters across) hit Tunguska, Siberia and flattened 60 million trees.

Bear in mind we're more likely to be hit by a small asteroid than a large one.

About a dinosaur that befriends a small boy (the asteroid never hit the Earth), one can expect a great unlikely friendship to be formed, as Pixar has done so well in the past.

You and a small group of people are seeking shelter in a church after an asteroid hits the Earth.