Sentences with word «asteriod»

It is interesting to call asteriod attack as Tunguska impactor.

At NASA, I was told that the reason for the focus on threat of asteriod impact, which they admitted was laughably unlikely, was because it could bring in more money.

Since we can not examine the real world in the absence of forcings (there is always solar variability, volcanic eruptions, orbital forcing and random events like asteriod impacts), it is a valid working hypothesis to assume the models are reasonable.

So it is possible that most the mass in the universe is just black holes, dark stars, big planets, and huge asteriods.

Asteroids in the asteriod belt continue to envelope the solar system.

Of course, if you are an atheist you could also understand that if an asteriod were to strike our planet today, we could see it as a judgement of the merits of humanity in the sense of humanities ability to pay attention to the things that it should pay attention to in order to survive a catastrophic planetary collision.

Obviously you don't realize that an asteriod the size of just the Empire State Building that actually makes it to the surface of the earth at the average speed of most objects coming from the asteroid belt in our solar system would cause enough destruction and devastation on earth to wipe out most if not all of the planet.

The Younger - Dryas would certainly start with an «event» if it was the result of an asteriod / comet impact.

The statement about an asteriod strike is an annual risk and comes from the NASA website.