Sentences with phrase «by a comet spread»
A yearly meteor shower arises when particles shed by a comet spread into a long trail, drifting along the comet's entire orbital path around the sun.
http://www.sciencemag.org/ Not exact matches
The smaller debris / meteoroids produced get spread around the orbit quite quickly (read: centuries or millennia) by various physical effects (ejection speeds from the comet; radiation pressure; Poynting - Robertson effect; Yarkovsky effect).
Jupiter has a few moons large enough to be hit frequently by meteoroids or comets, small enough to have little gravity so debris can escape the moon, and close enough to Jupiter that tidal effects can spread the moon's debris into rings.
The Miller and his loyal workmen have become lifeless husks, consumed by the ever - growing crystalline influence that has spread from the comet across the farm...