Sentences with phrase «as asteroids»

The researchers estimate the comet or asteroid was roughly 6 to 12 kilometers across, or about the same size as the asteroid believed responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

NATURAL catastrophes such as asteroid impacts, massive volcanic eruptions or large - scale wildfires would have periodically plunged our planet into abnormal darkness.

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?

Threats such as asteroid impacts, online pedophiles, and terrorist attacks trigger gut reactions so powerful that they override rational thought, Gardner explains, and pretty soon we are willing to carry gas masks to protect ourselves from a chemical weapons attack — but not to exercise and eat our fruits and veggies.

Ceres is a dwarf planet, as well as an asteroid.

The reason is that the advent of humans easily could have been accelerated or delayed hundreds of millions of years by something as banal as an asteroid hit.

Preliminary observations suggested it was a comet — but follow - up observations showed none of the characteristics associated with comets, and it was subsequently categorized as an asteroid — the first time a comet's categorization has changed to asteroid.

Useful for launching larger interplanetary science payloads such as Asteroid Redirect Mission, Mars Sample Return, Jupiter Europa Orbiter, Saturn / Titan Sample Return, Ice Giant Exploration, Outer Planet Sample Return, Large Telescopes and In - Space Infrastructres.

But it didn't show any comet - like activity as it neared the Sun, and was quickly reclassified as an asteroid, meaning it was rocky.

However, the deep oceans of Earth and the subsurface of the Moon are largely unexplored territory, while regions such as the asteroid belt, the Kuiper belt, and stable orbits around other Solar System planets could also contain non-terrestrial artifacts that have so far escaped human observation.

Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in this contemporary novel.

Each sector comprises a randomised mix of encounters — shops, text - based, multiple - choice quests (think King Arthur: The Roleplaying Wargame, or maybe a much simpler Space Rangers 2), hazards such as asteroid fields, and most of all, hostile spaceships.

That means a comet could hit Earth with about 10 times as much energy as an asteroid with the same mass.

Interestingly, Chiron was originally classified as an asteroid but has gone through an identity crisis of his own.

He has leveraged his formidable personality and network into a diverse web of businesses, building and investing in companies as far - flung as asteroid mining, credit cards, hospitality, nutritional supplements, private equity, sports teams, 3 - D printed prosthetics, and, most recently, wealth management.

«This isn't what you normally think of as an asteroid, a dead potato just being smacked around by its neighbors out in space.

ALL IN THE FAMILY By identifying the wreckage of past asteroid crashes (illustrated) known as asteroid families, astronomers can ignore those fragments and pick out asteroids that have remained intact since the early solar system.

And a lot of those clumps of debris still exist and are orbiting the sun as asteroids, and some of those fall to the Earth as meteorites.

Much rarer — and more expensive — are meteorites from the moon, Mars, and other special bodies in the solar system, such as the asteroid Vesta.

But C / 2014 S3 looks as dark and rocky as an asteroid and has a stubby tail made mostly of dust, earning it the nickname «Manx comet» after the tailless cat.

As asteroids rotate in orbit around the Sun, their surfaces heat up during the day and cool down at night.

Chemical analysis of the irregular bodies suggests they are made of the same stuff as asteroids and comets.

What planetary scientists lump together as asteroids are far too diverse — from boulders to floating heaps of gravel to mini planets with signs of past volcanic activity and even liquid water — to have a single common origin.

Earth has a familiar magnetic field, and little Mercury has an oddly strong one, but could a chunk of rock as small as an asteroid ever have had a magnetic field spawned by the churnings of its own molten metal core?

Even before astronomers pointed their telescopes at a dim star over Chile last June, they knew it would darken for a few seconds as an asteroid passed in front of it.

The spherical body, Vesta, circles the sun in a stretch of asteroids known as the Asteroid Belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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.

The radar images were taken as the asteroid flew past Earth on October 31 at 1 p.m. EDT at about 1.3 lunar distances (300,000 miles, or 480,000 kilometers) from Earth.

«These water - rich building blocks, and the terrestrial planets they build, may in fact be common — a system can not create things as big as asteroids and avoid building planets, and GD 61 had the ingredients to deliver lots of water to their surfaces,» Farihi said.

It is thought that these two worlds probably started as asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.

Scientists believe that our moon and possibly other moons in the solar system were created when a large object such as an asteroid collided with the parent planet.

Several weeks after the meeting, the IAU classified Pluto as asteroid 134340.

Scientists plan to test a network of observatories that have been set up as an asteroid warning system — being able to try this out on an asteroid that is coming so close to Earth will allow them to refine the network and the techniques used to track near Earth objects.

Francene Stanley recently posted... What to do as another asteroid hurtles our way.

Steve and Keira's infinite playlist is tasteful and sweet, but it's all about as subtle as an asteroid hitting the Earth.

Roland Emmerich was being touted as Asteroids» potential director earlier this year, but it's unclear how real a prospect that was, and nobody seems to be mentioning him now.

As an asteroid approaches Earth, it's clear the end is near.

Who: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Gillian Jacobs, Connie Britton and Melanie Lynskey What: As an asteroid falls toward Earth, a man is joined by his neighbor on a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart after his wife leaves in a panic.

SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD Starring: Steve Carell and Keira Knightley Directed by: Lorene Scafaria As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic.

«We're paying homage to the original Asteroids by incorporating classic features such as asteroid blasting capabilities, while introducing a completely new premise and gameplay.

As far as Asteroids goes, there are XBLA Indie space shooters like Decimation X that Id rather spend time with, and they only cost 80 points each ($ 1).

This game could be best described as Asteroids meets Pong, although according to the wikipedia page it's a minimalist sports game that combines air hockey and soccer.

The team, now joined by musician Ryan Henwood & officially re-grouped as Asteroid Base, haven't stopped there: they've taken the past year to prepare the game — in which two players frantically ward off waves of enemy attack by manning various battle - stations on their cross-sectioned ship — for commercial release next year.

What if we redefine global warming as an asteroid barrage, hitting earth with deadly impacts through this century — and decide to defend ourselves?

Originally described as a planet, Ceres was later categorized as an asteroid, and then reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.

NASA's other major asteroid - deflection initiative is the opposite in almost every way: the splashy, controversial, exploration - oriented proposal currently known as the Asteroid Redirect Mission.

It was only realized 50 years later that Ceres was a member of a huge number of objects in what we now know as the asteroid belt.