Sentences with phrase «by a comet which»

You take control of one of the four factions that must delve into the ruined city of Mordheim, a truly bleak environment that was hit by a comet which killed the inhabitants and also deposited a strange glowing green stone around the streets, the very material you now seek; Wyrdstone.

One theory doing the rounds is that players will be granted super powers by the meteors, or perhaps by the comet which has been visible in the sky of Fornite for weeks and is slowly getting closer.

Not exact matches

By August 2015 the comet (and Rosetta, which is tracking it) should have reached its perihelion, its closest position to the Sun.

We worshipped moon and sun, comets, the circling stars, Venus and bloodstained Mars, ignorant of our duty owed to the unnamed one, kindler of every beauty and fire by which we find the hand, the designing mind of heaven's artisan....

The comet hasn't returned and may be on a parabolic orbit, in which case it won't pass by Earth again.

Earth is surrounded by a cloud of debris, both natural — such as micrometeorites and comet dust, which create meteor showers — and unnatural, including dead satellites and the cast - off detritus of space launches.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

Since that time, material vaporizing from sunlit areas of the comet and then condensing in shadowed regions (which a recent report suggests are about 50 °C cooler than those illuminated by the sun) may have helped form the neck joining the once - separate objects.

Unike Earth, Titan has no magnetic field of its own, but is surrounded by Saturn's rapidly rotating magnetic field, which drapes forming a comet - like tail around the moon.

The tradition begun by the Voyager twins, which outlasted their missions to Jupiter and Saturn by decades and are now reporting from the edges of the solar system, continues today: In March a combination of luck and solid engineering allowed the Stardust probe to complete its second comet - chasing mission.

Seen in seismic - reflection profiles, and in gravity and magnetic surveys, it has traits that are consistent with impact craters, which are caused by collisions with asteroids and comets.

- The giant radio telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Network — which perform radio and radar astronomy research in addition to their communications functions — were tasked with observing radio emissions from Jupiter's radiation belt, looking for disturbances caused by comet dust.

But the plumes spotted by Herschel seemed to come from nearer the equator, which implies they can't be comet - like.

The other finalist, the Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR) mission, would launch a spacecraft before the end of 2025 to collect a 100 - gram sample from the surface of comet 67P, which was mapped by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, and return it to Earth in 2038.

The glass itself, one large polished piece of which has a prominent place in a necklace that belonged to Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, has been dated to 28.5 million years and has long been thought to be the result of a meteorite impact or an airburst caused by a comet breaking up in Earth's atmosphere.

The Perseid meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through debris left behind by the comet Swift - Tuttle, which last crossed the inner solar system in 1992.

It never comes close enough to be affected by the sun, but it never goes far enough away from the sun to be affected by other stars, which is the case with comets that have been observed in the Kuiper belt.

The enticing evidence was delivered by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS instrument, which snaps photos of the comet's surface with a resolution as high as a few centimeters per pixel.

The resolute rocks showed up in images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft, which has been orbiting comet 67P since August.

Balancing boulders on Earth are either deposited by glaciers or carved by wind and water erosion — none of which exist on a comet.

The ESA's Rosetta mission, which ended in September 2016, found that organic matter made up 40 % (by mass) of the nucleus of comet 67P Churyumov - Gerasimenko, a.k.a. Chury.

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — The comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, which the Rosetta spacecraft is now orbiting, is by all accounts a fascinating chunk of dust and ice.

The comet, which is now about one - millionth as bright as the faintest star visible with the naked eye, can't be discerned in wide - field images taken by Rosetta's instruments.

Last year, researchers found that in conditions mimicking those sparked by a comet or meteorite impact, intense heat and pressure converted formamide (which forms when hydrogen cyanide reacts with water) and other simple substances into the four information - bearing nucleobases in RNA, a likely genetic precursor to DNA.

Jupiter - family comets, which are primarily influenced by our largest planet's gravity, have a relatively short orbit of less than 20 years.

Results from previous comet - fly - by missions — which have snapped photos and even grabbed particles from a comet's tail — have proved inconclusive, but Rosetta's extended stay and carefully chosen toolkit mean it is well placed to provide answers.

They also looked at whether craters made by the comets hitting the surface could excavate enough nitrogen — but that would require a very deep layer of nitrogen ice at the surface, which is not proven.

Some highlights of the photo plate images captured by the Østervold telescope include a series showing a lunar eclipsein 1896; a view from 1921 of Deneb, a bright star in the Cygnus constellation; and a photo of the comet Arend - Roland (which Pedersen remembered seeing as a child) in 1957.

The cratering record on the moon provides a proxy for similar impacts by interplanetary debris such as comets and asteroids on Earth, the effects of which have largely been erased by billions of years of erosion and geologic activity.

Each candidate must target research priorities from a list set by the scientific community, which this time included a return to Venus; probing of Saturn or its ocean moons; exploration of the moon's south pole; or returning a sample from a comet, among other options.

«The scenario in which the dimming in the KIC 8462852 light curve were caused by the destruction of a family of comets remains the preferred explanation...,» wrote the three — Marengo; Alan Hulsebus, an Iowa State doctoral student; and Sarah Willis, a former Iowa State graduate student now with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory.

He says he can find no evidence to support the idea, suggested by some geologists, that it might have come from comets or other bodies which pelted the Earth and Moon between 4.6 billion and 3.8 billion years ago.

As the CEO and chairman of both the X Prize Foundation and the Zero Gravity Corporation, which provides temporary weightlessness by way of «vomit comet» plane rides, Diamandis eats, drinks, and breathes space.

A new generation of sensitive, high - resolution telescopes will help resolve the debate by probing both dust clouds and the protoplanetary disks from which asteroids, comets, and planets form.

«The combination of iSHELL's high resolution and the ability to observe in the daytime at IRTF is ideal for studying comets, especially short - period comets,» said John Rayner, director of the IRTF, which is managed for NASA by the University of Hawai'i.

This could be good news for life under the surface, as tectonics would deliver new material — including organic molecules deposited by comets — to this environment, which is otherwise completely sealed off from space.

In addition to water, organic molecules, which could have been deposited on the surface by crashing comets, somehow would have to get through the thick shells of ice for life to form, a situation that puts Saturn's geyser - spewing moon Enceladus at the top of Nimmo's list of potential spots for life.

Unlike the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in the main belt of our solar system, which move cleanly along their orbits, active asteroids were discovered several years ago mimicking comets with their tails formed by calm, long lasting ice sublimation.

This composite NASA Hubble Space Telescope Image captures the positions of comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never - before - seen close passage of a comet by the Red Planet, which happened at 2:28 p.m. EDT Oct. 19, 2014.

Especially important is the study of cometary «parent molecules» — molecules which have been present since the comet's birth, but have not been disturbed by chemical processing.

This 1.25 - mile - or 2 - kilometer - long, «peanut - shaped» comet nucleus was the fifth visited by Human spacecraft, which in this case was NASA's re-purposed Deep Impact probe.

When in the proximity of the Sun, they are usually characterised by a long tail which is composed of material vaporised off the comet body.

On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission flew at a close distance of around 435 miles (or 700 kilometers) by Comet Hartley 2, which was then an active short - period comet with jets of gas and dust coming off its sun - lit end and which completes an orbit in less than 6.5 years.

In addition, tidal forces affecting the Oort Cloud come from the differential gravitational forces exerted by stars in the Milky Way's galactic disk and by the galactic core on the Sun and comets as a result of their relative location in the Solar System, which have been modelled with numerical simulations (Duncan et al, 1987).

During its approach, Rosetta has trained its navcams and OSIRIS camera at the comet, which sent back dramatic pictures of Churyumov — Gerasimenko; revealing it to be craggier and sharper edged than the asteroids and moons previously explored that had been worn down by billions of years of meteor impacts.

This remarkable object was discovered Oct. 19 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth's neighborhood.

It is produced by dust grains left behind by comet 21P Giacobini - Zinner, which was first discovered in 1900.

News of the comet leads to an inmate riot in which Rhonda escapes with a white supremacist, Leanne, played by Megan Mullally with bottle - blond tresses, buckteeth and a swastika forehead tattoo.

But perhaps what we all appreciate most about that car is how, like a comet leaving a streak of gleaming dust in its wake, it blazed the trail for the M2, which considerably more customers will be able to enjoy — something that has not been mentioned enough by the enthusiast media.

The «YDB» event, which occurred circa 10,770 BC, is thought to have been caused by the impacts or air - bursts of several comets, resulting in massive shockwaves and firestorms sweeping across continents, initiating a 1200 year - long epoch of terminal environmental change and catastrophic faunal extinction, effectively wiping all but traces of early civilizations from the historical record.This book explores the forbidden and deeply profound secrets of a magnificent lost civilization, revealing knowledge long concealed in myth and legend.