Sentences with phrase «as meteor»

This is because the droplet converts the translational energy of the captured vapor molecule (close to Mach 1) into thermal energy, much as a meteor (way more than Mach 1) burns up in the atmosphere, or your disc brakes get hot bringing your car (definitely not Mach 1) to a halt.

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.

Experimenting wildly with materials and tools as varied as meteor dust and the xerox machine, Polke made work of both an intimate and monumental scale, drawn from sources as diverse as newspaper headlines and Dürer prints.

High - powered towers such as Meteor Towers will prove useful here as their range covers the majority of the map.

In Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z, players can perform what is known as a meteor chain.

I think his attacks are versatile enough for a fighting game and his Final Smash could have something to do with the stars, such as a meteor shower or something.

The DLC introduces natural disasters to the game, such as meteor strikes, earthquakes, and forest fires, which can occur randomly, or be triggered deliberately by players.

On our planet, grazing long - necked dinosaurs look up at the fireball in the sky — then go back to munching, as the meteor passes by.

The Cool Stars 18 Public Lecture is sponsored by The Barringer Crater Company, owners since 1903 of The Barringer Meteorite Crater more commonly known as Meteor Crater, Earth's first proven and best preserved impact site.

As the meteor broke apart, the radar beam bounced off the pieces.

These are the first images that show the shock wave created as a meteor dives into the atmosphere.

(Hankey noted that people who heard a noise as the meteor moved overhead could have been hearing the sonic boom or the explosion of the rock.)

SCRAPS of iron found scattered around what became known as Meteor Crater in Arizona convinced geologist Daniel Barringer that a huge iron meteorite lay buried there.

The researchers said this new way of watching plastic deformation as it happens can help study a wide range of phenomena, such as meteor impacts, the effects of bullets and other penetrating projectiles and high - performance ceramics used in armor, as well as how to protect spacecraft from high - speed dust impacts and even how dust clouds form between the stars.

And since reentry at hypersonic 35,000 mph would burn one up as a meteor, and «braking» from said speed is indeed preposterous, then we can know that NASA used C130's for this episode.

As the meteors streak through the sky, they briefly ionize the atmosphere.

Volcanic explosions can produce these low - frequency acoustic waves, as well as events such as meteors entering Earth's atmosphere, and even chemical or nuclear explosions.

But their training is quickly put to the test when alien carriers disguised as meteors (perplexing meteorologists who notice that these space - rocks actually slow down before impact) hit the coasts of Earth's major cities.

There were a few games that seemed to have an odd control scheme that was difficult to get a feel for, such as Meteors and Lava Golf game.

Description: Muster energy in midair, then slash groundward as meteors rain down (Uses two Command Slots).

Not exact matches

Of course, beyond the major geographical changes as a result of the meteors, there's a new season of «Fortnite» — the most popular game in the world, by some measures — for millions of players to dig into.

According to the map, those with the best optics for viewing the Lyrid meteor shower are on the East Coast from Pennsylvania to Maine as well as a swath on the West Coast that includes parts of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington and California.

«You'd have to be in a meteors - hitting - the - Earth scenario before Slack as a business would get into trouble,» he boasts.

As others have pointed out, he was talking about panspermia, the idea that «life could spread from planet to planet, or from stellar system to stellar system, carried on meteors.»

They are «stardust» and were brought here (and to other planets as well) by comets, meteors, and other debris.

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.

Sometimes it is as simple as being in the wrong place at the wrong time (where a large meteor impacts for example).

Ah, Franklin, as smart as he was, still couldn't imagine that things like meteors could drop to the earth.

And since the «heat shield» was made up of what NASA called «special plastic» back in the day, and since NASA indeed stated that reentry from such a voyage generates temperatures «10 times hotter than the sun», then we can know that one would burn - up upon reentry as do meteors and true physics confirms.

I saw something on the History Channel (I think) recently that presented scientific evidence that this event potentially coincided with a big meteor shower (or something similar - I admit my memory of this show is not as detailed as I would like, but is essentially accurate).

I notice as well that meteors have not struck Washington DC while none of the Supreme Court Justices have been struck down with pestilence and plague.

But at Wheaton, I discovered that Scripture had not dropped from heaven as a sacred meteor that arrived intact.

For example, there reallyw as a large meteor shower int he md - 1800s that people though heraled the Day of Judgement.

By excluding men under thirty - five from the first office, and those under thirty from the second, it confines the electors to men of whom the people have had time to form a judgment, and with respect to whom they will not be liable to be deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism, which, like transient meteors, sometimes mislead as well as dazzle.

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.

Earth is surrounded by a cloud of debris, both natural — such as micrometeorites and comet dust, which create meteor showers — and unnatural, including dead satellites and the cast - off detritus of space launches.

If we're going to survive nuclear war, meteor strike or radiation event, there is no doubt we'll have to live underground for months or even years as the planet recovers.

A new way to observe this deformation as it happens can help study a wide range of phenomena, from meteor impacts to high - performance ceramics used in armor, as well as how to protect spacecraft from high - speed dust impacts.

Meteors impacting Jupiter's upper atmosphere can create spectacular fireballs, such as the one observed by amateur astronomers Gerrit Kernbauer and John McKeon on 17th March 2016.

As a result, many geologists think they were supplied by one final meteor bombardment after the planet solidified.

The spacecraft probably fell another 1,000 kilometers as it disintegrated like a meteor, Maize said.

As it plummets through the upper atmosphere, the various metal shells that will have shielded it from meteors and cosmic rays in space will burn away, exposing a ceramic heat shield.

Even when there is no shower, you will always see twice as many meteors after midnight than before simply because you are then on the side of Earth that faces forward in our motion around the sun.

Not even the most intense meteor storms on Earth have produced as strong a response as this one: The emission dominated Mars» ultraviolet spectrum for several hours after the encounter and then dissipated over the next two days, according to the MAVEN science team.

The eruption destroyed the top three thousand feet of the volcano, blasting it into the air in pieces, leaving behind only a large crater three miles wide and half a mile deep, as though the mountain had been struck by a meteor.

From the UK, the peak of the shower occurs in the late evening on 12 August to the morning of 13 August, when as many as 100 meteors or more may be seen each hour.

He presents debunked hypotheses — the moon as a captured asteroid — as well as the reigning theory, which posits that a massive collision between Earth and a Mars - size meteor left us with our beguiling satellite.

After 1 a.m. the radiant will have risen high enough to enable you to see meteors streaking downward from that spot as well.

For centuries, skywatchers have reported seeing and simultaneously hearing meteors whizzing overhead, which doesn't make sense given that light travels roughly 800,000 times as fast as sound.

You and your smartphone can help the American Meteor Society (AMS) determine the path of extremely bright meteors known as fireballs.