Sentences with phrase «asteroid coming»

It can get a bit overwhelming, and occasionally you'll suffer a death because you didn't see a small asteroid coming up behind you.

There's one asteroid coming towards earth, but it burns up and misses the planet completely.

It's fairly rare to find an asteroid coming this close five years ahead of time.

It was probably a supernova (or an asteroid coming straight at us!)

«But we're lucky that the «Mud Dragon» got stuck in the muck, because its skeleton is one of the best examples of a dinosaur that was flourishing during those final few million years before the asteroid came down and changed the world in an instant.»

Initial calculations showed that the asteroid came from the direction of the star Vega, in the constellation of Lyra.

Where did the asteroids come from that supposedly banged into each other.

The models might also explain how some asteroids came to be magnetised, says Ben Weiss at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sunlight warms Ceres most when the asteroid comes closest, which was around the time Herschel detected the water vapor (shown with exaggerated clarity in this artist's conception).

The first hint of the kamikaze asteroids came about 40 years ago, when astronomers discovered heavy elements such as magnesium in the spectra of some white dwarf stars.

C: You could have one of the smaller asteroids come crashing into our planet, and that would be the end of civilization.

Other evidence for white dwarfs shredding asteroids comes from observations of the elements in white dwarfs.

Low / no - tech is not going to offer the opportunity to build off - planet habitats for when the asteroid comes, or, say, genetically engineer humans themselves to survive acute «natural» environmental changes.

To further obfuscate that point, offer as analagous examples situations like «asteroids coming at the earth» or «Star Wars» — situations where the existensial threat is known and the only uncertainty is how to deal with it.

Why can't an asteroid come along to pin you down and remove all these dang, urgent decisions?

Not exact matches

These two agencies have performed multiple doomsday test runs to make sure that, if the day does come, we're prepared to detect and hopefully prevent destruction via asteroid.

Most contemporary NT scholars do not believe in the Second Coming so apparently there is no concern about JC coming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors / raComing so apparently there is no concern about JC coming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors / racoming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors / rapture.

Most contemporary NT exegetes do not believe in the Second Coming so apparently there is no concern about JC coming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors / raComing so apparently there is no concern about JC coming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors / racoming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors / rapture.

The rules in the interesting region correspond a world having an open system with energy / mass coming into it (like earth getting energy from the sun, mass from asteroids).

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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.

But the researchers discovered an oddity that made them question whether the gems came from an asteroid at all: The diamonds had grown around even smaller crystals of iron and sulfur, which normally would repel each other like oil and water, says EPFL physicist Cécile Hébert.

These meteorites are famous for coming from the first - ever asteroid tracked from orbit to ground as it streaked to the Nubian desert in Sudan in 2008 (SN: 4/25/09, p. 13).

A few years after noticing the iridium, Alvarez came up with his proverbial 100th idea: If a miles - wide asteroid or comet smashed into Earth, it would also throw up a dust cloud that blocked out the sun and snuffed out life.

Therefore, the Almahata Sitta rock comes from a big asteroid or early planet, the research teamsaid.

NASA's Spaceguard survey program, established in 1998, aims to locate and follow at least 90 percent of the estimated 1,100 asteroids that come within about 30 million miles of Earth's orbit around the sun and that are larger than two - thirds of a mile wide.

Trinks, then a physicist at the Technical University of Hamburg - Harburg in Germany, had come to Nordaustland — far north of the Arctic Circle — to peer 4 billion years back in time to an era shortly after the end of the bombardment of Earth by asteroids.

Fragments of the particles may have come from asteroids, too: deuterium - rich grains have been found in some meteorites (Science, vol 328, p 742).

The idea will be tested in 2029, when the asteroid Apophis is due to come within 40,000 kilometres of Earth.

This is unusual, as most basaltic meteorites come from a larger asteroid called Vesta.

Cuk says one possible alternative is that a dwarf planet or single large asteroid «hundreds or maybe 1000 kilometres across» did the damage after being ripped apart by gravity when it came too close to Earth or another inner planet.

Research led by Richard Binzel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that Earth's gravity may cause landslides on asteroids that come within 100,000 kilometres of our planet, exposing fresh, underlying rock.

This mechanism has come to light in a group of about a dozen asteroids, called the Koronis family, between Mars and Jupiter.

Trigo states: «While it is true that many of these dangerous projectiles come from the main belt of asteroids after being gravitationally scattered towards the Earth by the so - called planetary resonances, in 2007 we proposed other physical mechanisms that enable these rocks to be detached from asteroids or comets as they undergo close approaches to our planet.»

It was asteroids like these that «came together to make the rest of the planets.

[2] Current research indicates that water came to Earth not via comets, as long thought, but via icy asteroids.

(The five previous extinction events all came before the evolution of Homo sapiens, apparently triggered by a cataclysmic event or combination of events, such as a fall in sea level, an asteroid impact, volcanic activity.)

McCord's grad students set to work on the data and came up with some preliminary findings: Ceres was a carbonaceous chondrite (a type of asteroid composed of water locked in minerals and carbon - based materials), and it had not been thermally altered.

A clue came in June 2009, when NASA's STEREO - A spacecraft watched the asteroid double in brightness at its closest point to the sun, which lies just 14 per cent of Earth's distance from the star.

The orbit calculations revealed beyond any doubt that this body did not originate from inside the Solar System, like all other asteroids or comets ever observed, but instead had come from interstellar space.

No target asteroid has been selected yet, but researchers are investigating a handful of potential destinations that will come within reach over the next 10 to 20 years.

But Voyager scientists had a hard time coming up with a compelling scenario to explain it — the notion that a saturnian moon might have exploded at a time when the solar system would have had few potential asteroids or comets to ram into it seemed far - fetched.

Composed of dust particles and debris, the rings are formed by the star's gravity tearing apart asteroids that came too close.

«The zodiacal light comes from sunlight reflected off dust grains blown off comets or from asteroid collisions,» Rieke says.

Most meteorites come from the asteroid belt currently located between Mars and Jupiter but probably were born elsewhere.

It's not much — just 6 kilograms per second — but there's water vapor coming off two regions of Ceres, the solar system's largest asteroid.

All families have their rocky patches, but a new family found in our solar system is as rocky as they come: a few dozen asteroids, all born from a parent blasted by an impact less than 6 million years ago.

While that water could initially come from Earth, it could later come from water ice frozen on asteroids, in shadowed regions of the moon's surface, from possible sources on Mars» two moons, or from Mars itself.

One insight came from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which circled the asteroid Vesta in 2011 and 2012.

Centaurs are distinct from the much more numerous main belt asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and may have come from the Kuiper Belt region.