Sentences with phrase «by another meteorite when»

Geologists believe it started life, 4 billion years ago, tens of metres below the Martian surface and was «snookered» off the planet by another meteorite when it struck that area, a mere 16 million years ago.

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When news broke last month of the so - called «buddha from space» — a swastika - emblazoned statue, apparently 1,000 years old, that had been carved out of a meteorite and looted by a Nazi ethnologist — the world was enthralled.

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

By comparing the results to the isotopic composition of the trapped gas, the researchers revealed how dense the Martian atmosphere was at the time when the gas became trapped in the meteorite.

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.

Lakes may form when meteorite impacts heat ice in the crust or when underground reservoirs of water kept liquid by geothermal heat leak onto the surface.

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.

The meteorite made its debut in 1984, when it was picked up by a geologist team riding snowmobiles through the Allan Hills region of Antarctica.

The Mars rock made headlines in 1996 when researchers, led by David McKay, from NASA's Johnson Space Center, claimed in the journal Science that the meteorite contained evidence of possible Red Planet life forms.

The weekend takes a terrifying turn when a meteorite crashes the party forcing everyone to face the darkest, screaming extraterrestrial nightmare imaginable... The Gracefield Incident is written and directed by up - and - coming filmmaker Mathieu Ratthe, making his feature directorial debut after a number of short films previously.

But that annoying inconvenience pales in comparison to what transpires when she's struck by a mammoth meteorite falling out of the sky shortly before entering the church.

So of course it's a joke that poor Susan Murphy (the voice of Reese Witherspoon: Four Christmases, Rendition) ends up in a government facility so secret that «it's a crime even to say its name» when she gets zapped by a radioactive meteorite on her wedding day and is mutated into... well, not Bridezilla, because Susan is a really nice, really sweet girl, one who's a bit too accommodating, actually, to her fiancé, TV weatherman Derek (the voice of Paul Rudd: I Love You, Man, Role Models).

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Not content with most games» standard «fall - down - and - fade - to - black» demise, Dead Space aims to show a variety of ways your body might react when assaulted by electricity, fire, meteorites, angry aliens and heavy machinery.