Sentences with phrase «based on asteroids»

Ever since Universal picked up the rights to develop a full - length film based on Asteroids, I've kept an eye out for examples of anyone attaching a plot to the simple, vector - based game, like the hilarious Asteroids radio drama that Kid Stuff recorded in the early 80s.

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Planetary Resources, a Redmond, Washington - based company founded by Peter Diamandis and commercial spaceflight pioneer Eric C. Anderson, is currently working on its own asteroid mining technology.

The most recent, asteroid 1999 JV6, unfortunately just slipped past in January with an estimated worth of $ 1.43 trillion, or an estimated mining profit of about $ 190 billion based on what asteroid tracking database Asterank thinks can be retrieved.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Denver -: The «Adapting Commercial Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall thrusters.

The work also suggests — based on the sizes of other impact basins in the Moon, Mars and Mercury — that the early solar system was likely well stocked with protoplanet - sized asteroids.

In fact, scientists have found increasing evidence of water on numerous moons, planets, and asteroids in recent years — an encouraging trend for those who see the familiar substance as the backbone of a future space - based economy.

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.

Based on the average surface brightness of these asteroids, DD45's size appears to be about 19 km across, on the lower end of its estimated size range.

In a second study, researchers from the Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS / Aix - Marseille Université) ruled out the possibility of a capture on the grounds of statistical arguments based on the compositional diversity of the asteroid belt.

By examining infrared data taken earlier by the Spitzer Space Telescope, they discovered a swath of dust particles ranging in size from 0.1 to 20 microns (finer than a split hair) that added up to the mass of a large asteroid and, based on their warmth, were strewn about 1.8 Earth — sun distances from the star.

A new terrestrial bombardment model based on existing lunar and terrestrial data sheds light on the role asteroid bombardments played in the geological evolution of the uppermost layers of the Hadean Earth (approximately 4 to 4.5 billion years ago).

It could also spot and track asteroids on the sunward side of Earth, removing a worrisome blind spot in ground - based surveys.

Land - based impacts were, on average, an order of magnitude more dangerous than asteroids that landed in oceans.

Barbee developed the NHATS system to find easily accessible asteroid mission opportunities based on the JPL / Horizons data.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

Boslough accepts the fatality estimates for climate change (the WHO's estimate was made for the agency by epidemiologist Tony McMichael, of the Australian National University's National Center for Epidemiology and Population Health) as well as those for asteroid impacts, the latter of which are based lately on work by Harris.

The new model is based on computer simulations of separate collisions between the asteroid Vesta and a pair of 20 - mile - long (32 kilometers) rocks within the last billion years.

Based on the observations they were able to make in 2012, asteroid trackers predicted that it should come back into view in the fall of 2017.

«If the D - to - H value changes with time, it would be misleading to assume that comets contributed only a small fraction of Earth's water compared to asteroids,» Paganini said, «especially, if these are based on a single measurement of the D - to - H value in cometary water.»

NASA scientists have used two giant, Earth - based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off a passing asteroid and produce images of the peanut - shaped body as it approached close to Earth on 25 July.

Asteroids whizz past Earth on a regular basis, usually only a few meters wide.

NASA scientists used giant, Earth - based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off the asteroid as it flew past Earth on 31 October at 17:00 UTC (~ 5 pm GMT) at about 1.3 lunar distances (302,500 miles, or 486,800 kilometres) from Earth.

New free software for home computers based on an algorithm created through NASA's Asteroid Grand Challenge has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by enabling amateur astronomers to analyse their ownAsteroid Grand Challenge has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by enabling amateur astronomers to analyse their ownasteroid discoveries by enabling amateur astronomers to analyse their own images.

A software application based on an algorithm created by a NASA challenge has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by amateur astronomers.

The orbital distance from Zavijava where a planet currently would be «comfortable» for Earth - type carbon - based lifeforms with liquid water on the planetary surface in the so - called habitable zone is centered near 1.87 AU — between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System.

The Good Dinosaur is based on a provocative hypothetical: what if the asteroid that wiped dinosaurs off the face of the Earth had instead harmlessly bypassed the planet?

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

The game is set in a post-apocalyptic version of a wasteland created by an asteroid impact, based on the real life asteroid 99942 Apophis, which will pass by Earth in 2036.

Our home base is set on a small asteroid.

Previously successful with the one - dimensional hardware game Line Wobbler, he's now focusing on «Robot Space Mining» (working title), a deeper PC simulation game based around asteroid exploration and mining with autonomous robots, which he was prototyping at Stugan.

I won't speculate on the exotic substances Asteroid Base were using when they came up with this premise — it's decidedly, ahem, 60s in look and feel — but I commend them for sticking with the theme.

Again, I won't try to guess at what Asteroid Base's graphic designer was on when making this game, but I can say it would be fun to play and look at after a few beers.

Asteroid Base has experience developing on various platforms, and the studio's latest title, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, will launch soon.

LiaDS from Toronto indie developers Asteroid Base has been on our radar a good long while.

Downloadable songs include the title track (which reached # 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982, if you can believe it), the Frogger tribute «Froggy's Lament,» the Asteroids - based «Hyperspace,» and a song dedicated to Exidy's Mouse Trap, all of which are priced at 160 Microsoft Points each.

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Version Tested: PC Also available on: Linux, OS X, XBox One Developer: Asteroid Base Publisher: Asteroid Base Genre: Co-op Action, Shooter [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOnZ9hYiArs [/ embedyt] The number one thing to say about Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is that it makes you happy.

Need To Know Multitasking space - shooter about co-operation and lasers Publisher Asteroid Base Developer Asteroid Base Reviewed on i5 - 3230 CPU, 8GM RAM Expect To Pay # 10.99 Multiplayer 1 - 2 Link Official site

Some of the main competition finalists on at the IGF Pavilion will be Drinkbox Studios» action platformer in a magical Mexican inspired world Guacamelee, Asteroid Base's co-op micro-platformer Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, and Droqen & Ryan Roth's symphonic garden tending and secret - laden Starseed Pilgrim.

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.

And for the last few weeks, the Maine - based painter Meghan Brady has been using the New York branch of the collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid as a studio, making thrilling, deceptively sophisticated wall - size acrylic collages for a show that opens on Friday and runs through May 6.

Based on what we know so far, those are due to comet / meteorite / asteroid strikes.

indeed, the former is not based on anything real, but we know the Yellowstone caldera is real, as is asteroid strikes.

There is GREAT UNCERTAINTY as to WHEN our planet will be hit by a major asteroid, although it is fairly CERTAIN that this will happen again some day, and — when it does — it is fairly CERTAIN (based on previous incidents) that the impact on our environment and on human society will be DISASTROUS.