Sentences with phrase «bombarded by comets»

And by «well» I mean, not getting bombarded by comets and poisonous monkeys.

u «Saturn's moons are bombarded by comets or micro-meteoroids.

Named for the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, Vesta has been bombarded by comets, meteoroids and its smaller siblings for 4.5 billion years.

During and shortly after the formation of Mercury, it was heavily bombarded by comets and asteroids for a period that ended 3.8 billion years ago.

Instead, the Earth may have been bombarded by comets or asteroids for hundreds of thousands of years.

Not exact matches

Bits and pieces shed by this comet litter its orbit and bombard the Earth's upper atmosphere at 110,000 miles per hour (177,000 km / h).

Michael A'Hearn of the University of Maryland suspects the comet's outer layers, bombarded for billions of years by cosmic radiation, exploded «like a bomb» at the first tickle of warmth.

One possibility called out by the authors would be icy comets bombarding Earth after formation and delivering their own distinct cocktail of compounds and gases to an existing atmosphere evolved from a solar source.