Sentences with phrase «by an asteroid strike»

Even the group of cephalopods, the so - called ammonites, was not annihilated by the asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous Period.

Chances that life on Earth will be blighted by an asteroid strike are only half as high as previously assumed, according to a report in tomorrow's Nature.

Scripps graduate student Elizabeth Sibert and Professor Richard Norris analyzed the microscopic teeth of fishes found in sediment cores around the world and found that the abundance of ray - finned fish teeth began to explode in the aftermath of the mass die - off of species, which was triggered by an asteroid strike in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Not exact matches

It is certain that the world will end sometime, either by our sun dying or the earth being struck by an asteroid or the moon leaving earth orbit or dozens of other possible catastrophies.

Asteroid strikes repeatedly bombarded the planet during its first eon, but the heat released by those hits wasn't as sterilizing as once thought, new research suggests.

From the origin of the universe (big bang), to the origin of the moon (big collision), to the origin of lunar craters (meteor strikes), to the demise of the dinosaurs (asteroid impact), to the numerous sudden downfalls of civilizations documented by Jared Diamond in his 2005 book Collapse, catastrophism is alive and well in mainstream science.

A relatively small 150 - foot asteroid that struck Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908 packed the punch of 15 million tons of TNT, equivalent to the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated by the United States.

The likelihood that one of these space rocks poses a real threat to human lives may be low — researchers at Prince - ton University have placed 1 - in - 5,000 odds on an asteroid two - thirds of a mile across smacking into Earth sometime in the next century (for comparison, the risk that you will be struck by lightning in your lifetime is about 1 in 3,000)-- but the stakes are high.

A team led by experts at Cardiff University has provided new evidence to explain why deep sea creatures were able to survive the catastrophic asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65m years ago.

Do any of the rings match the original crater rim left by the striking asteroid or comet?

Spurred by human activity, the crisis is occurring faster and could extinguish more species than the gigantic asteroid strike that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

A new analysis by geophysicist Steven Ward and planetary scientist Erik Asphaug of the University of California, Santa Cruz, concludes that the biggest tsunami hazard arises from asteroids between 30 and a few hundred meters across, which may strike the ocean every 1000 to 100,000 years.

And while previous extinctions have been driven by natural planetary transformations or catastrophic asteroid strikes, the current die - off can be associated to human activity, a situation that the lead author Rodolfo Dirzo, a professor of biology at Stanford, designates an era of «Anthropocene defaunation.»

Owing to a 2008 law passed by Congress, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has until October 15 to decide which agency will be responsible for protecting the planet from an asteroid strike.

Depending on the prophecy, the world is predestined to expire by means of a solar storm, asteroid strike, rogue - planet collision, plague, falling stars, earthquake, debt crisis, or some combination thereof.

Earth is struck by an asteroid 60 meters (more than 190 feet) wide approximately once every 1500 years, whereas an asteroid 400 meters (more than 1,300 feet) across is likely to strike the planet every 100,000 years, according to Rumpf.

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?

Some researchers even theorize that the dinosaurs were wiped out by prehistoric hypercanes, a kind of super-hurricane stirred to life by the heat of an asteroid strike [source: National Geographic].

He further said that with DART, they can show how to guard the planet Earth against an asteroid strike with a kinetic impactor by knocking the dangerous object into a different flight path that would not threaten the planet, as New Atlas noted.

By the time we reach the lighthouse that signals ground zero for the asteroid strike, Annihilation indulges in a wackadoo climax that filters Lena's personal history through a combination of 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Fountain.

THE GOOD DINOSAUR By: John «Doc» Strange Imagine if the asteroid whose strike ended the age of dinosaurs had missed...

ART IN AMERICA Artists working in 50 states + Puerto Rico Curated by Julie Torres Featured in Tiger Strikes Asteroid's Artist - Run at The Satellite Show Miami December 1 - 6, 2015

Joy Curtis will have work in Drawing for Sculpture, curated by Courtney Puckett, at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn.

Elizabeth Ferry / Honey Ramka / 56 Bogart / thru 11/23 Work It Out curated by Eric Heist / Momenta / 56 Bogart / Bushwick / thru 12/7 Caroline Cox / Studio 10 / 56 Bogart / Bushwick / thru 12/21 Tilo Baumgartel / Slag / 56 Bogart / Bushwick / thru 12/28 Robert Lansden / Henry Contemporary / 56 Bogart / Bushwick / thru 11/23 Farrell Brickhouse; James Prez / Life on Mars / 56 Bogart / thru 12/7 Oskar Nilsson / Interstate / 66 Kickerbocker Ave. / Bushwick / thru 11/23 Ragnar Kjartsson and The National / Luhring Augustine / 25 Kickerbocker Ave. (second location) / Bushwick / thru 12/21 Peggy Ahwesh / Microscope / 1329 Willoughby (new location) / Bushwick / thru 1/4 Opening 11/22 (6 - 9 PM) Etched Impressions: 18 Years of Jennifer Melby Editions / Schema Projects / 92 St. Nicolas / Bushwick / thru 12/14 Claudia Baez / Art - 3 / 109 Ingraham / thru 11/22 Hronir: Un-Lost Things / Temporary Storage / 119 Ingraham / thru 11/21 Closing Reception 11/21 (6 - 9 PM) Flatfile Year 2 / TSA: Tiger Strikes Asteroid / 44 Steward Ave. # 49, Bushwick / thru 11/23 Ryan Foerster / Clearing / 505 Johnson Ave. / thru 12/28 Henry Hargreaves + Caitlin Levin / Air Circulation / 160 Randolph / thru 1/4 Mari Rantanen; Shingo Francis; Royce Weatherly; Kurt Steger / Art Helix / 299 Meserole / thru 11/30 Reception 11/21 (6 - 9 PM) Abstraction and its Discontents; French Paradox / Storefront Ten Eyck / 324 Ten Eyck / thru 11/23 Phillip David Stearns / Transfer / 1030 Metropolitan / thru 12/13 Icono Clash: Fred Fleisher; Tommy Mishima; GJA Stewart / Projekt722 / 722 Metropolitan / thru 12/8 Graham Collins / Soloway / 348 S. 4th / Williamsburg / thru 12/9 Tracy Henenberg; Susan Mayr / Sideshow / 319 Bedford / Williamsburg / thru 12/7 The Great Figure: D.Heidkamp; L.Ludlow; K.Mayerson; D.Schutz; H.Taylor; T.Thornton / Journal / 106 N 1st / Williamsburg / thru 12/21 Emily Roz / Front Room / 147 Roebling / Williamsburg / thru 11/23 You - Tility curated by Amanda Friedman / Southfirst / 60 N 6th Williamsburg / thru 12/21 Opening 11/21 (Lu Yang / Ventana244 / 244 N 6 / Williamsburg / thru 11/22 Paulien Lethen / Art 101 / 101 Grand / Wmsburg / thru 12/21 Opening 11/21 (6 - 9 PM) Cecilia Avendano / Reverse Space / 28 Frost, Williamsburg / thru 11/23 Brian Dewan / Pierogi / 177 N 9th / Williamsburg / thru 12/21 Opening 11/21 (7 - 9 PM) Linda Herritt; Elana Herzog / The Boiler / 191 N. 14th St. / Greenpoint / thru 12/21 Tim Simonds / Cathouse Funeral / 260 Richardson, Greenpoint / thru 1/4 Opening 11/22 (7 - 10 PM) Stefan Tcherepnin / Real / 673 Meeker / Greenpoint / thru 12/7 10 Year Anniversary / Kurnatowski / 205 Norman / Greenpoint / thru 12/21 Opening 11/21 (7 - 9 PM) Adam Brent / Auxiliary Projects / 212 Norman Ave., Greenpoint (new location) / thru 11/23 J.Cohen, M.Freeman, C.Kelly, C.Lazard, M.Lowe, V.Vreeland, R.Watson Horn / Cleopatra's / 110 Meserole / Grpt / thru 12/22 Britta Deardorff / Regina Rex @ Bunker 259 / 259 Banker / Greenpoint / thru 12/12 Shape Scapes / Calico / 67 West # 203 / Greenpoint / thru 11/28 Interrupting Camus: Meena Hasan; Carlos Rigau; Charles Shedden / Heliopolis / 154 Huron / Greenpoint / thru 11/30

Pieces were selected by Juror Alex Paik, a Brooklyn - based installation artist and director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, an organization of artist - run spaces.

Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kristen Lorello, NY, and Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and included in the following group exhibitions: Plus One, curated by Melanie Kress, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, [Old / New] Psychedelic Providence, curated by Jamilee Lacy and sponsored by Providence College Galleries, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL, and You Don't Bring Me Flowers, curated by Quang Bao, 68 Projects, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, Germany.

Contributed by Becky Huff Hunter / It is timely that Douglas Witmer's solo exhibition, «Dubh Glas» at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA) in Philadelphia, opened shortly after the Guggenheim's Agnes Martin retrospective closed to the public.

As the director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a community of art galleries run by artists in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles, he is also looking forward to the curatorship of the upcoming Satellite Art Fair in Miami.

For Artist - Run Tiger Strikes Asteroid will bring together an international representation of nearly 40 of these initiatives in a repurposed hotel with each room will feature a different installation / environment by one of these groups.

Artist Run was developed by Tiger Strikes Asteroid for art fair week in Miami this December.

We had already been in touch with tsa (Tiger Strikes Asteroid) about potentially operating from the same location, and by sharing the space with tsa were able to make it work.

Taking Up Space — with Meaning through January 28 Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles By Genie Davis «Taking Up Space», at Tiger Strikes Asteroid through the 28th, is a beautiful exhibition that fills those taken spaces with both visual and emotional meaning.

He is represented by Gallery Joe (Philadelphia) and is the director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a non-profit network of artist - run spaces with locations in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

By Genie Davis «Taking Up Space», at Tiger Strikes Asteroid through the 28th, is a beautiful exhibition that fills those taken spaces with both visual and emotional meaning.

BROOKLYN, NY — Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present Revealing Reflected Refractions, an exhibition featuring work by Andy An, Karin Ferrari, Hai - Hsin Huang, Alison Kudlow and Nooshin Rostami; curated by Jonathan Cowan and Rachael Gorchov.

The group exhibition features the work of the 10 members of Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York installed alongside a single work by one of their mentors, influences or admired peers.

2015 Art in America curated by Julie Torres, Tiger Strikes Asteroid's Artist - Run at The Satellite Show Miami, Miami Beach, FL

Napoleon and Tiger Strikes Asteroid are pleased to present F (L) AT, featuring artworks by members of the artist - run gallery SOIL, located in Seattle, Washington.

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Artist - Run is presented by Tiger Strikes Asteroid in partnership with SATELLITE.

zip line tow rope, a new exhibition by Gary Petersen at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, reveres and redefines this formative era of imagery and ideals.

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.

So, in the spirit of dialogue we're trying to maintain here, let me ask some questions: 1) On a 100 - point scale upon which total extinction of the biosphere (say, by supermassive asteroid strike) is 100, what point value would you assign to worst case harm caused by IS?

So we could say (in IPCC parlance) from past experience and from all the stuff floating around out there that we are «virtually certain» (> 99 %) to be struck by a major asteroid some day in the future, and this is «very likely» (> 90 %) to occur within the next 5 to 10 million years.

The earth probably can't get into a snowball anymore because the sun is warmer by a couple percent since the last snowball episode 650mya and the sun just keeps growing warmer as it ages but maybe a perfect storm of super-volcano, asteroid strike, and continents arranged just right...

Suppose an astronomer discovered an asteroid heading for an impact with the Earth — how would the argument «On geological timescales Earth has been struck by lots of objects, including some much larger than this one» be taken?

It's also been theorised that asteroid strikes on the planet have a similar effect, throwing material into the sky, and some scientists believe that the end of the age of the dinosaurs may have been caused by a giant asteroid hit.