Sentences with phrase «about asteroids»

A new trajectory means the mission to uncover core facts about the asteroid belt will happen sooner than planned.

I personally worried about it as much as I worried about an asteroid hitting the planet and wiping out mankind.

He is much more confident about the asteroid threat, though.

Launching the event in 2014, astrophysicist Brian May said, «The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it becomes that the human race has been living on borrowed time.»

The Psyche spacecraft will carry four instruments to gather as much information about the asteroid as it can: a camera, a gamma - ray spectrometer to record what chemical elements are there, a magnetometer, and a radio gravity experiment.

Holdren acknowledged that there was «lack of excitement among some» about the asteroid mission at that time, but insisted that much has changed since December.

The dataset also includes previously unknown information about asteroids hurtling through our solar system.

We've known about this asteroid since 2015, but the orbit hadn't been clearly determined, and it wasn't possible to confirm the co-orbital configuration.

That's how he used to feel about asteroids.

No one can be sure about the asteroid's composition and structure until Dawn begins making detailed measurements after its scheduled arrival at Ceres in February of 2015.

Yet without better detection and tracking there will inevitably be uncertainty about asteroid positions in the future — and even greater expense if the uncertainty leads to unnecessary efforts to thwart an apparent pressing threat.

Some answers about the asteroid's true nature are beginning to emerge as researchers analyze the data collected by Rosetta.

Within NASA's human exploration division, the committee has questions and concerns about the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM)-- a planned deep space mission to visit an asteroid and bring it closer to Earth.

As a result, its mission was featured in the scientific magazine «Science» as a first Japanese mission to illustrate various new findings about the asteroid including its gravity and surface conditions.

We actually derive much of our knowledge about asteroids and the evolution of planets from the study of meteorites.

Beginning, as it must, with a primordial prologue about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs — just as it strikes, two dinos who were fighting moments before embrace in fear — the film concerns a tribe of well - meaning cavemen whose happy existence is disrupted by the arrival of civilization: Bronze Age intruders show up one day, there to turn their communal cave into a mine so that Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) can maintain his lavish lifestyle.

Typically, it happens in big - budget situations — audiences were able to see two different movies about asteroids headed for Earth (Armageddon and Deep Impact) as well as two different movies about anthropomorphized ants (Antz and A Bug's Life) in 1998.

It was a great day — students were peppering me with questions about asteroids and the solar system.

Rumors are swirling about an asteroid or some other large body colliding with the earth.

Thank you for allowing me to do this interview and talk about Asteroid Challenge.

How about asteroids, not enough money going over that way and we already have lots of movies about that one.

[5 Reasons to Care About Asteroids]

As your student creates these 4 interactive foldables, he will learn about asteroids, including the following: • What is a Comet?

Editor's note: This story was updated November 9, 2017, with new information about the asteroid's name and how fast it's traveling on its way out of the solar system.

He alerted the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which collects information about asteroids and comets.

A photo gallery of asteroids More information about asteroids The twin 10 - meter Keck Telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, used to observe zeta Leporis

Tim Spahr directs the Minor Planet Center, the global clearinghouse for all information about asteroids, comets and other relatively small bodies like moons.

As your student creates these 3 interactive foldables, he will learn about asteroids, including the following: • Uranus Basic Facts (Discovery, Surface, Exploration, Moons, Atmosphere) • Uranus Numbers (diameter, distance from sun, temperatures, etc) • Interesting Facts About Uranus This product is a downloadable ebook in PDF format.

As your student creates these 4 interactive foldables, he will learn about asteroids, including the following: • Mars Basic Facts (Moons, Weather, Atmosphere, Discovery, Exploration) • Mars Numbers (diameter, distance from sun, temperatures, etc) • If I Lived on Mars • Interesting Facts About Mars This product is a downloadable ebook in PDF format.

As your student creates these 3 interactive foldables, he will learn about asteroids, including the following: • Jupiter Basic Facts (Discovery, Rings, Exploration, Moons, Weather) • Jupiter Numbers (diameter, distance from sun, temperatures, etc) • Interesting Facts About Jupiter This product is a downloadable ebook in PDF format.

As your student creates these 4 interactive foldables, he will learn about asteroids, including the following: • Asteroid & Asteroid Belt Definitions • Types of Asteroids • Largest Asteroids • Interesting Facts About Asteroids This product is a downloadable ebook in PDF format.

In the Find a Meteorite section, students can learn about asteroids and meteorites and teachers will find a leaders guide, handout, and fact search to use in their lesson planning.

Pete, I agree with you about the asteroid scenario.

On Thursday, the court agreed to consider whether Apple Computer can subpoena records kept by the ISP for O'Grady's blog PowerPage that published / posted information about Asteroid.