Sentences with phrase «by a meteor on»

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.

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You might get hit by a bus tomorrow, a meteor might fall out of the sky, someone might go nuclear on us — and I mean literally go nuclear, not just have a hissy - fit when the coffee machine breaks down.

Lyrid meteor on in 2014 by Simon Waldram in Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands.

Too, it need be considered why Jupiter is where it is and its size, for it's huge size (mass) has a strong gravitational effect on meteors and asteroids going near it, causing them to either be absorbed by it or deflecting them away from the earth.

Today you look at craters on the earth with no hesitation in the belief they are in fact, craters caused by meteors.

It is absolutely preposterous to believe everything happens by chance on the right planet with the right conditions not once but twice after the meteor killed the dinosaurs oh but wait a minute remember alligators and other reptiles evolved from the dinosaurs but wait a minute how did they evolve to these things if they was destroyed.

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Meteors impacting Jupiter's upper atmosphere can create spectacular fireballs, such as the one observed by amateur astronomers Gerrit Kernbauer and John McKeon on 17th March 2016.

Silver Award: Robbie McEwan Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation «Chasing Meteors» Dec. 5, 2016 Deep in the Outback of southern Australia, Robbie McEwan recounted the hurried chase by planetary geologist Phil Bland and colleagues to find a meteorite that had been sighted by a cook taking a break on the veranda of a pub in a dusty desert town.

Amateur videos of the meteor streaking across the sky — captured by numerous cellphones and cameras on car dashboards — were key.

The Slooh live stream will begin on Monday, Nov. 17 at 8:00 p.m. EST (0100 GMT Tuesday) and will include more than just shots of the sky: Slooh will also broadcast audio of the «ionization sounds» created by the meteors.

Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of NASA's Ames Research Center forecasts that a narrow, dense filament of material shed by Swift - Tuttle in the year 1479 will trigger an hour - long spike in activity at 4:18 a.m. eastern daylight time on the morning of August 12.

But the meteor, paired with a close fly - by of asteroid 2012 DA14 on the same day, has whetted the appetite of government and privately funded rock - watchers.

The sonic boom created by this fireball was «recorded on an infrasound station in Manitoba [Canada], some 600 miles [965 km] away,» according to the NASA Meteor Watch page, indicating that the explosive breakup of the meteor released at least the energy equivalent of 10 tons oMeteor Watch page, indicating that the explosive breakup of the meteor released at least the energy equivalent of 10 tons ometeor released at least the energy equivalent of 10 tons of TNT.

After the meteor was sighted streaking through the sky on 22 April, meteorite hunters found fragments of the rock, identified by the «fusion crust» that forms when it burns in the atmosphere.

Direct photographs of a meteor's trail (the column of ionized gases formed by the passage of a meteoric body through the upper atmosphere) taken at two points on the Earth's surface several kilometres apart yield the most accurate data for tracing the path of a meteor.

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.

Lovell was persuaded by James Stanley Hey that the echoes on the surplus ex-Army radar equipment he was using were meteor trails and not cosmic rays.

A new meteor shower is on tap for the continental United States as the Earth passes through an old debris field left behind in the 1700's by Comet 209P / LINEAR.

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.

The Bottom Line: My favorite pick because it's more a monster movie than a disaster flick, this intriguing tale from 1962 (based on the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, who also penned THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS that spawned VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED on the big screen) begins with a meteor shower that liberally spreads killer crawling plant creatures around the globe — with everyone who has seen the celestial show going permanently blind.

His worst fears are soon realized when his Super Sweet 16 birthday party is interrupted by meteors crashing down from the sky, but when he and Amy are stranded on opposite sides of town he charges into the city to rescue her.

Then as they seemingly crash into the ocean, it's becomes very clear, very quickly these ain't no meteors but rather an alien force, intent on taking over our planet by using our water to fuel their machines.

Poor L.A., always getting beaten up either by weather anomalies (Day After Tomorrow), giant meteors (Deep Impact), the Mayan doomsday calendar (2012)-- and yes, many alien invasions staking their claim on the City of Angels.

On our planet, grazing long - necked dinosaurs look up at the fireball in the sky — then go back to munching, as the meteor passes by.

His parents left him, he gets picked on by everyone, finds a meteor which is actually a big blue turd, gets food thrown on him, has his leg humped by a dog, is covered in chemical feces, and falls in love.

This module includes the following: * A check list for students, parents and teachers to ensure that students understand all the content by the time they reach the end of the module; * A list of important terms used in this section * Descriptions of different celestial bodies (planets, stars, moons, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites) * Opportunities for student engagement - place for students to write their thoughts / answers in spaces provided (individual as well as group work) * Simple explanations on the Earth's rotation, day and night, years and seasons, equinoxes and solstices.

For more information on METEOR PRINCE and other manga titles published by VIZ Media, please visit www.VIZ.com.

Claudia Gabel at HarperCollins has bought METEOR by Anna - Marie McLemore and Tehlor Kay Mejia, in which two friends, one made of stardust and one fighting to save her family's diner, take on their small town's 50th annual pageant and talent competition in the hopes that they can change their town's destiny, and their own.

In one long sentence, Roogoo tasks players with matching falling «meteors» of varying shapes with corresponding holes by rotating a disc the holes are located on.

Ethan Meteor Hunter is developed and published by Seaven Studios it's available to download now on the xbox store.

By now, we will have all seen and heard the rumors regarding the Fortnite Meteors and its impending strike on the Fortnite Battle Royale map.

Locking on to your partner can be done by tapping their face on - screen, and your Meteor Arts can be unleashed using square and the left trigger (any link elements requiring you to press triangle as well).

To supplement the lack of a Zombies, the games «Hoard Mode» in COD: Ghosts offered up a side quest focused on a story about feral beast like aliens invading Earth by means of a meteor shower.

Some streamers have been almost hit by the meteors, like streamer RealKratfyy barely lacking it on this twitch clip.

For our thoughts and tin - foil hat conspiracy theories on Fortnite's meteor event happening right now, check out why we think the llamas are aliens and why we think the entire map should be hit by meteors.

One well placed post on something everyone wants goes from zero to a million «impressions» before the meteor can be taken out by a nuke.

-- Historically, transient climate sensitivity (TCS) has been evaluated thanks to satellite measurements series of Earth Radiative Balance (e g «ERBS» time series, followed by «CERES», or even the french «SCARAB» on a Russian Meteor).

Then throw in massive volcanic eruptions and huge continent wide brush fires caused by volcanoes or meteor showers (both theories I have seen in the literature) and you have many events that could cause climate disruption on a large scale.

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.

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