Sentences with phrase «by a meteor shower»

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.

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.

«A tranquil orange evening sky turned into a swirling cyclone of purple with long streaks of lighting, then it became a clear blue daytime dotted with fluffy white clouds before melting into a pitch - black night lit up by a meteor shower.»

Not exact matches

The Lyrid meteor shower of 2017 will peak from April 21 through April 24, and can easily be seen by those in the Northern Hemisphere.

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.

Even the reliable Perseid meteor shower in August is spoiled by a nearly full moon.

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.

There are scattered reports of deaths by meteorites through recorded history, like a Chinese chronicle asserting that thousands died during a 1490 meteor shower.

AN ASTEROID that is the source of an annual meteor shower may owe its weird crumbliness to intense cooking by the sun.

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.

July 29: The Delta Aquariids meteor shower peaks in the hours before dawn in a nearly dark southern sky, unhampered by a moon only a few days into its waxing phase.

By the time totality occurs, the sky is ablaze with stars; if totality occurs near the peak of a meteor shower, the dark - red moon can be surrounded by shooting stars for the duration of totalitBy the time totality occurs, the sky is ablaze with stars; if totality occurs near the peak of a meteor shower, the dark - red moon can be surrounded by shooting stars for the duration of totalitby shooting stars for the duration of totality.

Basically meteor showers are caused by ice particles left behind by comets, and we run into them.

Artist's concept: Mercury appears to undergo a recurring meteor shower, perhaps when its orbit crosses the debris trail left by comet Encke.

By using this technique, we can forecast the timing of meteor showers very accurately, and we can also get an idea of how intense the shower will be.

Most of the annual meteor showers are caused by debris left behind by comets.

A meteor shower occurs when a planet passes through a swath of debris shed by a comet, or sometimes an asteroid.

Earth's annual passage through the debris stream left by Comet Swift - Tuttle is not likely to make a dent in the meteor shower's intensity anytime soon

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.

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.

My glowing sense of pride was somewhat damaged, though, when a savage meteor shower rained down deathly pain by consistently annihilating the pipes carrying water and oxygen to the domes, and since I hadn't been smart enough to build in redundancies into everything my colony began to crumble.

One of those interesting ideas is apparently coming to pass as an in - game meteor shower phenomenon is getting stronger, leading the community to believe that the Tilted Towers area of Fortnite Battle Royale's map may be destroyed by those meteors.

Infections and meteor showers may pose threats to you, but it's attack by space pirates / raiders than tends to be the most dangerous aspect of living in space.

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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.

Zoe Beloff uses stereoscopic film to reenact ten séances held by an early 20th - century French medium in The Ideoplastic Materializations of Eva C. Jennifer Bornstein's What It Was and Celestial Spectacular use 16 - millimeter film to document UFOs, eclipses, meteor showers and other extraordinary phenomena playfully constructed from everyday household objects.

Her work, often inspired by natural wonders — meteor showers, the aurora borealis, cloud formations, fire, and the night sky — invites an individualized experience of the work and the space it occupies.

The Sensation of Sadness at Having Slept Through a Shower of Meteors brings together new works by American artist Roni Horn (born 1955), continuing her 30 - year artistic exploration of time, memory and perception.

Brief shots of forest scenes are illuminated by what must be fireworks falling out of the sky and hitting the great trunks in showers of sparks — but my mind conjured ideas of prehistoric meteor storms.

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.

By speeding up analysis of meteor showers, researchers hope to pinpoint the orbits of distant, but potentially dangerous, comets.