Sentences with phrase «by asteroid»

They have all been destroyed by asteroid impacts — in the movies.

These previous mass extinction events (also known as the «Big Five») are hypothesised to have been caused by combinations of key events such as unusual climate change, changes in atmospheric composition, and abnormally high stress on the ecosystem (except in the case of the Cretaceous, which was caused by an asteroid impact and subsequent effects).

With your escape reference I am reminded of the idea that we need to advance space programs so that in the event the Earth is threatened by an asteroid, we will have some other options such as inhabiting Mars.

The planet could be hit by an asteroid.

The Earth could be hit by an asteroid tomorrow.»

It's like people who feel we can never get hit by an asteroid.

I'm not aware of others that will make much of a difference, short of being hit by an asteroid or terrorists stealing and deploying some failing state's WMD's.

The K - T boundary was (almost certainly according to my most informed source on the matter) caused by an asteroid impact.

We have huge environmental problems, we could be hit by an asteroid or by deadly cosmic particles, we have a crazy economy, and the nuclear war possibility.

They've already done it with A Voyage to the Moon (1902), a very fragile film that will now be there for a million years, unless we get hit by an asteroid (laughs).

If you fancy co-op, then you might like this fancy co-op game called Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime by Asteroid Base.

takes place on a ship getting slowly torn apart by an asteroid field.

Falco: Do me a favor and get creamed by an asteroid while you're at it!

The various characters are limited in their range of expression, and the plot of the title is limited, but I love the optimistic nature of the universe created by Asteroid Base and how the studio has managed to make positive feelings such a central concept of the entire experience.

The setup of both games are the same: you are in a wasteland created by an asteroid collision with Earth.

The trailer essentially showcases the insanity of a world that was hit by an asteroid, causing civilization to fracture into tribes and territories without anyone or anything providing any boundaries.

Monetization of videos created containing assets from Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is legally & explicitly allowed by Asteroid Base.

One maps has «lanes» formed by asteroid fields.

The game is set in a post-apocalyptic version of a wasteland created by an asteroid impact, based on the real life asteroid 99942 Apophis, which will pass by Earth in 2036.

The front porch of the» restaurant» (that is, the place where they hang the laundry up to dry) looked like it had been hit by an asteroid.

A thousand years after our 21st century civilization was obliterated by an asteroid, little remains other than myth and superstition; but a wasted world is coming back alive and the hope of recovery rests on Dismé who will uncover the truth and reclaim a lost world.

In an alternate timeline where Earth was never hit by an asteroid and dinosaurs never became extinct, a young Apatosaurus named Arlo loses his father in a tragic accident.

In an alternate timeline where Earth was never hit by an asteroid and dinosaurs never became extinct, a young Apatosaurus named Arlo loses his father in a...

«The Good Dinosaur» keeps the original concept that the Earth was never hit by an asteroid.

I was hoping that everyone involved would get hit by an asteroid.

Even in the end Cretaceous extinction, in which dinosaurs were finally wiped out by an asteroid impact, a major global - warming extinction event was already underway causing a major extinction within 150,000 years of the impact.

The bright areas around craters appear to be composed of pristine and possibly primodial material uncovered and ejected by asteroid collisions that may extend for 19 miles (30 kilometers) or more.

For one thing, it's still possible for Earth to be hit by another asteroid!

Therefore, most of the gold that is present today in the Earth's crust and mantle is thought to have been delivered to Earth later, by asteroid impacts during the late heavy bombardment, about 4 billion years ago.

And recent discoveries even suggest that we may occasionally be visited by asteroid - like objects coming in from interstellar space.

This encounter with TC4 is being used by asteroid trackers around the world to test their ability to operate as a coordinated international asteroid warning network.

The research contradicts other suggestions that the large valley networks on the red planet were the result of short - lived catastrophic flooding, lasting just hundreds to a few thousand years and perhaps triggered by asteroid impacts.

Giant planet interiors are inaccessible to direct study from above, but oscillations excited by asteroid and comet impact can generate waves that are potentially observable.

New research, led by the University of Southampton, has questioned the role played by ocean acidification, produced by the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, in the extinction of ammonites and other planktonic calcifiers 66 million years ago.

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.

Another possible scenario, though seen in only about 2 percent of the team's new simulations, is that Mars formed more than twice as far from the sun as its present - day orbit in the region currently inhabited by the asteroid belt.

And because the first dust clouds would have formed with the star nearly 100 million years ago, Chen and Jura argue that «this disk must be continually replenished by asteroid collisions.»

If that idea is correct, then it implies that the moon's water is mostly ancient — contrary to scientists who have argued that water was delivered more recently by asteroid impacts or even produced by a hail of protons known as the solar wind.

The heat generated by an asteroid accounted for nearly 30 percent of lives lost, according to the study.

81 Tut Jewel Formed By Asteroid Impact The central jewel in King Tutankhamen's pectoral gear may have been literally out of this world...

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.

Almost a billion years later, a large impact by another asteroid melted some crust that promptly froze to form new crust, including a chunk that became Allan Hills A81001.

But until now, whether the disparity was caused by an asteroid impact or volcanic action on the surface has been in dispute.

The eruptions that created the flow released enough toxic gas to off T. rex and company, and may have been triggered by the asteroid that smacked into the other side of the planet at roughly the same time.

In the new study, Kunk and Izett dated sanidine from the zone which was melted by the asteroid.

About 1,100 miles across and nearly five miles deep, it was formed about 3.5 billion years ago by an asteroid impact.

«It may give us clues to the formation of Earth's moon and the moons of the other planets, and the role played by asteroid impacts in shaping the terrestrial [rocky] planets,» says Alexander Zakharov of the Moscow - based Space Research Institute and chief scientist for Fobos - Grunt.

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.

Many scientists believe the extinction was caused by an asteroid impact; some think regional volcanism was to blame, and others suspect it was due to a combination of the two.

By the 1990s, death by asteroid impact was all the rage.