Sentences with phrase «by a meteor»

Likewise you might get hit by meteors followed by pirates followed by a course of parasites.

Jablonski and graduate student Stewart Edie, who is the first author on the paper, ran the numbers for two major mass extinctions in history: the relatively gradual end - Paleozoic extinction, perhaps driven by changing climates and ocean composition, and later, the sharper end - Cretaceous extinction, thought to be caused by a meteor impact and / or volcanic eruptions.

Scientists have found organics from Earth's swamp trapped inside glass that had been created by a meteor impact almost a million years ago.

And wasn't Sodom destroyed by meteors, not fire?

Only a tiny number of Catholics took umbrage at La Nona Ora, Cattelan's 1999 sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteor, and even they weren't sure why they should be offended.

We now visit «Venice, Italy,» where the Illuminati gather, and then there is an expedition to the frozen northern land where the ancient city awaits in a Dead Zone inside the crater created by the meteor that brought the Key to Time here to Earth — I think.

According to observations made by NASA and ESA orbiters, the extremely close flyby of comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring was accompanied by a meteor shower larger than any seen on Earth.

For the old historicism, scholarship records the craters in the paths of history left by meteors from the world of eternity.

I may have enough assets now to cover them if I were to liquidate them all, but technically I'm worth more dead that alive, since there's no guarantee that I won't killed by a meteor or gas explosion today.

We know the shimmer was caused by a meteor crashing into the earth (creating Area X) and at first it has all the hallmarks of some sort of virus.

The story of Elex is set in the world of Magalan, a post-apocalyptic world that has been devastated by a meteor, and this meteor contained the games» primary focus, Elex.

[Translate] by Meteor Blades DAILY KOS The U.S. Supreme Court plunked a setback into the lap of the Environmental Protection Agency...

The Fortnite map is shaped like the map of Poland, and a city named Poznan was hit by a meteor in 2015, it is located in the same spot as Tilted Towers

there wold be no life to «adapt to the environment» the solar system we live in... is strategically placed for life... if it were in any other place, then we would be bombarded by meteors and such... plus with the solar system where it is at is making it so that the earth going around the sun in the track it is in possible... thus providing FOR life... your argument only goes part way..

LROC typically only captures images during daylight and then only about 10 percent of the day, so for the camera to be hit by a meteor during the time that it was also capturing images is statistically unlikely.

It may get obliterated in space by a meteor.

Little moons, battered by meteors, tend to lose pieces to space.

15 To communicate over long distances, NATO and the National Weather Service still bounce radio signals off the ionized trails left by meteors when they enter Earth's atmosphere.

The American Museum of Natural History in New York displays a fragment from a fireball widely seen along the East Coast in October 1992 — along with the Chevy Malibu wrecked by the meteor's crash in a driveway in Peekskill, New York.

If so, that right - handed excess could have been baked into Earth's chemistry as it was forming rather than being added by meteors after the fact.

«The Earth was assembled from a lot of heterogeneous material from the solar system,» Valley explains, noting that the early Earth experienced intense bombardment by meteors, including a collision with a Mars - sized object about 4.5 billion years ago «that formed our moon, and melted and homogenized the Earth.

The inconclusive results mean that researchers are now suggesting that a good place to find these organic compounds would be deep underground — from rocks that have been blasted to the surface by meteor impacts.

The earthshaking rumblings felt in Michigan last night weren't an earthquake, but rather vibrations from a booming noise caused by a meteor whizzing overhead, according to the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC).

Radar pulses (short bursts of radio - frequency energy) emitted from a ground - based transmitter are reflected by a meteor's trail.

Another process that the scientists investigated was lithopanspermia — the means by which life - bearing material on one planet can be ejected by meteor impacts and delivered to the surface of another planet.

For instance, the Opportunity rover is now perched inside the rim of Victoria Crater, a feature 800 meters across and well over 70 meters deep that was excavated by a meteor impact millions of years ago.

MAVEN discovered a spike in magnesium, iron, and ions introduced by the meteors that lasted for several hours and faded over a two - day period.

It is here that ICE - 10, a anti-matter last resort weapon developed from fragments brought to earth by a meteor.

The pathology evident in the wildlife of the land is genetic, generated by a meteor - stricken lighthouse.

Susan [Reese Witherspoon] has been hit by a meteor at her wedding.

Both films center around a carefully guarded zone that has been mysteriously affected by a meteor strike and has at its center a location that may or may not explain its mysteries.

Bob Peterson came up with the film's premise himself, which takes place in a contemporary world where dinosaurs weren't rendered extinct by a meteor 65 million years ago and now live side - by - side with humans.

«I was hit hard by a meteor this year, in the shape of Alejandro Iñárritu,» he said.

The plot is triggered by the rescue of the contents from an unmanned space probe hit by a meteor on its return voyage from Mars.

Supermen may not be all that impressed by meteors or earthquakes, but in the Chaos King we have a villain who is destroying the Dream Realm, the Underworld, the pantheons of the Norse, Greek, and all the other gods in Marvel U.

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.

Now, in the 21st century, the crystals seeded by that meteor have grown and are being mined as a substance called «Ulyssium.»

A drive - in theater, it too has been decimated by a meteor, albeit on a much smaller scale.

The prison east of Moisty Mire and an area near Fatal Fields have been hit by meteors too, which makes their flat playspaces a bit more fun to navigate with Hop Rocks around.

There's a sound being made by the meteor and a Redditor found that, when run through a spectrograph, the «L - Dance» emote is seen.

Comprising most of his oeuvre (some 128 works in all), including the now - famous sculpture of Pope Paul VI felled by a meteor, the exhibition offers a definitive opportunity to decide: a mere jokester or (as curator Nancy Spector argues) «the tragic poet of our times»?

We spoke shortly after the cosmic coincidence on Feb. 15, when a long - projected close flyby by the DA14 asteroid was upstaged by the meteor that disintegrated over Siberia.

Granted that period was caused by the meteor off the coast of the yucatan but many of the changes were similar to the ones that are merely starting now.

The Long View on Sustainability Taking a very long view, there's going to be some serious problems to combat in the eons ahead e.g. a direct hit by a meteor which happens (in the cosmic sense) all the time.

If one of my uninsured houses gets crushed by a meteor, I have one less house.

Jean - Marc Philippe and his wife, Karin Jestin, are less worried about KEO being destroyed by a meteor than about getting a vast number of people from all over the world to participate.

Things aren't so simple when the game gets underway, as the boys find their living room torn up by a meteor shower that nearly kills them.

The eruption destroyed the top three thousand feet of the volcano, blasting it into the air in pieces, leaving behind only a large crater three miles wide and half a mile deep, as though the mountain had been struck by a meteor.