Sentences with phrase «by meteors when»

15 To communicate over long distances, NATO and the National Weather Service still bounce radio signals off the ionized trails left by meteors when they enter Earth's atmosphere.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

«When Metaman reaches other planets it will not even be threatened by a global catastrophe like a giant meteor».

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.

When mysterious plumes were observed high in the Martian atmosphere by amateur astronomers back in 2012, explanations ranged from massive auroras to a meteor impact.

A stark reminder of the risk posed by asteroids and meteors came in 2013, when the 66 - foot - wide Chelyabinsk meteor fell over Russia's southern Ural region.

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.

Flash is a Yale graduate who is kidnapped and taken into space when Earth was bombarded by fiery meteors.

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.

When a meteor crashes down from the sky and Sam manages to get away, her attackers — led by the steely Moses (John Boyega)-- investigate the wreckage, only to be attacked by an alien creature that they eventually chase down and kill.

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.

However, as reported by users, a new feature in - game triggers an audio clip when the player aims at the meteor in the sky.