Sentences with phrase «by a comet striking»
One so thoroughly wiped out by a comet strike around 12,000 years ago that nearly all evidence of its existence vanished, leaving only the faintest of traces, including, Hancock thinks, a cryptic warning that such a celestial catastrophe could happen to us.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ Not exact matches
Fixing your moral compass and belief in God's message to a text written by people (strike that, by MALES) that thought the world was flat, the sun (and entire universe) revolved around the earth, that comets were angels, etc etc etc is a cop - out.
Do any of the rings match the original crater rim left by the striking asteroid or comet?
It is extremely unlikely that a comet would strike a moon in just such a way as to destroy it, but the odds of a huge ice ball wandering close enough to Saturn to be torn apart by gravity are also long.
Prematurely billed by the tabloids as the «killer comet» about to strike Earth, Hale - Bopp is fortunately not on a collision course with us.
Naturally, since global interest in the strike in Siberia in 1908, the largest in recent times, a cottage industry of scientists and tourists are fascinated by comets in Russia.
A 2007 paper led by W.B. Masse argued that asteroids and comets have struck Earth regularly in the longer past, so why has it been so quiet during our time?
A strike by a large asteroid or small comet nucleus (1 kilometer or greater) is but one of several kinds of independent high energy events that could destroy humanity and probably a significant number of other species as well.