Sentences with phrase «by small asteroids»

At certain points in the game, you will be in charge of managing the crew's health, fixing the ship's interior, and controlling the ship's weapons while being attacked by an enemy ship and / or getting bombarded by small asteroids.

Backtracking, they calculated that a single impact by a smaller asteroid could have blasted it all off the asteroid in February or March 2009.

Bear in mind we're more likely to be hit by a small asteroid than a large one.

Not exact matches

NASA is currently developing concepts for the redirect mission that will employ a robotic spacecraft, driven by an advanced solar electric propulsion system, to capture a small near - Earth asteroid or remove a boulder from the surface of a larger asteroid.

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.

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric proAsteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric proasteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

The asteroid will be one of the smallest objects ever visited by a planetary spacecraft.

One major question about Phobos and Mars» even smaller moon, Deimos, is whether they are captured asteroids or bits of Mars knocked into the sky by impacts.

Though they look pretty different, P5 and R3 are both evidence that small, rocky asteroids might die by spinning apart.

The task will be complicated by the sheer number of such objects and by their diminished brightness — smaller asteroids and comets reflect less light and so more easily escape detection.

Asteroids are discovered by small, dedicated teams of astronomers using optical telescopes that repeatedly scan the sky looking for star - like objects, which change location in the sky slightly over the course of an hour or so.

The research is part of the Measurements of 11 Asteroids and Comets Using Herschel (MACH - 11) program, which used Herschel to look at small bodies that have been or will be visited by spacecraft, including the targets of NASA's previous Deep Impact mission and upcoming Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS - Rex).

Researchers have used computer models to show that tsunamis from rare kilometer - sized asteroids could wipe out entire coasts, but no one had studied the hazards posed by smaller impacts.

On average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have shown.

Small towns facing the impact of an asteroid 30 meters across (about 98 feet) may fare best by evacuating.

The GBT images also confirmed the presence of a small moon - like companion zipping around the asteroid, which was previously detected with ground - based optical telescopes by Joe Pollock of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and Petr Pravec of Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic.

A map released by NASA reveals that small asteroids frequently enter and disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere with random distribution around the globe.

Beyond Neptune, a much larger population of small bodies exists in the Kuiper belt (Figure 11.1), KBOs outnumber asteroids by 1000:1.

NASA currently envisions the first two SLS flights, EM - 1 and 2, as part of the agency's Asteroid Initiative mission proposal, which aims to robotically redirect a small Near - Earth Asteroid into orbit around the Moon by the end of the decade, to be later visited by human crews.

It had previously been proposed that the two small moons were either wandering asteroids that had been captured by Mars» gravitational influence, or satellites that had coalesced in the wake of a violent collision between the Red Planet and a large impactor.

Kamuela, HI — Combining observations from the world's largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main - belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a complex interior, thanks to the presence of two moons orbiting the main asteroid, and probably linked to the way the multiple system was formed.

On Oct. 12 EDT (Oct. 11 PDT), a small asteroid designated 2012 TC4 will safely pass by Earth at a distance of approximately 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers).

In 2006, a small team of astronomers led by Franck Marchis, astronomer at the Carl Sagan center of the SETI Institute, detected the presence of a small 12 km diameter moon around the large Trojan asteroid (624) Hektor.

If the approaching spacecraft has to avoid plowing into smaller fragments, it would be a rather more graceful version of the famous asteroid - dodging sequence in Star Wars — fitting for a mission led by a jet jockey.

Delbo's study provides evidence for the Max Planck Institute's gravitational collapse hypothesis by suggesting the oldest asteroids started out large, and then became smaller through collisions and other destructive forces happening in the ancient solar system.

By 1846, astronomers had found two more planets, Uranus and Neptune, as well as a number of smaller bodies called asteroids.

«While many known asteroids have passed by closer to Earth than Florence will... all of those were estimated to be smaller,» Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near - Earth Object Studies, said in a statement.

Given that Tau Ceti does not appear to be a young star, the ring of dusty debris is believed to be produced by collisions between larger comets and asteroids that break them down into smaller and smaller pieces, and Tau Ceti's disk is similar in size and shape to the disk of comets and asteroids that orbits the Sun, Sol.

there are many small moons that are probably started out as asteroids and were only later captured by a planet;

Smaller asteroids go by all the time.

Small «chips» might be expelled, but only in extremely rare circumstances would they be placed in orbit around the asteroid by the gravitational attraction of other debris.

«While Ceres is a lot bigger than the candidate asteroids that NASA is working on sending humans to, many of these smaller bodies are produced by collisions with larger asteroids such as Ceres and Vesta.

Large planets will gravitationally tug on smaller bodies such as asteroids and comets as they pass by.

The small nation of Wakanda is a protected valley enclave in east Africa, hidden from outside eyes by some very advanced technology fueled by the alien metal vibranium, which arrived via asteroid millennia ago.

Developed by Nate Schmold and a small team of game wizards, Cosmochoria is described as a love letter to and re-imagining of, old school action - arcade games like Asteroids, Mario Bros and Donkey Kong.

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.

I mean, after all, your telescopes are now finding the larger asteroids that make close passes by Earth, and soon they'll be finding the smaller ones like the Tunguska impactor.

It's the same issue raised by people arguing against blowing up an asteroid, that it turns a single small cannonball into a very large shotgun blast with the same total energy being delivered and delivering it to the atmosphere is still a problem.