Sentences with phrase «by the comet in»

Naturally, since global interest in the strike in Siberia in 1908, the largest in recent times, a cottage industry of scientists and tourists are fascinated by comets in Russia.

Not exact matches

COMET Resources Limited and QNI Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Billiton plc, have taken a significant step forward in the development of the Ravensthorpe nickel project by acquiring the entire interest in the project previously held by a private sy

Stars, well known, have disappeared, new ones have come into view, comets, in their incalculable courses, may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other laws; certain races of animals are become extinct; and, were there no restoring power, all existences might extinguish successively, one by one, until all should be reduced to a shapeless chaos.

However, the Rosina mass spectrometer aboard Rosetta found that the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the comet is far greater than that found on Earth, adding to the growing body of evidence that the water on Earth was delivered not by comets, as previously thought, but by asteroids.

Fixing your moral compass and belief in God's message to a text written by people (strike that, by MALES) that thought the world was flat, the sun (and entire universe) revolved around the earth, that comets were angels, etc etc etc is a cop - out.

If there was a huge meteor impact in the indian ocean by a comet, it would create a humongous tsunami that would sweep miles inland....

If it is in danger of being destroyed by impact with a comet, or something of that sort, there is very little the church can do about it.

The Bible was written by a bunch of guys that counted by writing numbers in the sand, comets whizzing across the sky were belived to be angels, and volcanos and earthquakes were caused by God's vengeance.

P.S, Pep in his pre game comet gave us a huge compliment by saying that Arsenal is probably the best and most deadliest team to counter attack «in the world», make what you will of that but i say its not constant,

The lingering gravitational effects of a star that passed by our solar system some 70,000 years ago can be seen in the movements of dozens of comets today, Gizmodo reports.

Now, scientists have studied the paths of almost 340 comets with exaggerated, hyperbolic orbits, and found that a subset appear to have trajectories that were influenced by the gravity of Scholz's star, they write in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

«No one has before made measurements when a comet passes so close by a planet,» says Associate Professor Mats Holmström at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna, Sweden.

The comet hasn't returned and may be on a parabolic orbit, in which case it won't pass by Earth again.

The meteorite is made of volcanic rock, and the presence of water in it suggests that crustal rocks on Mars interacted with surface water that was delivered by volcanic activity, near - surface reservoirs or by impacting comets, Agee says.

The comet lander, lost since its tumultuous touch down on the comet on November 12, 2014, turned up in images taken by the Rosetta orbiter on September 2.

The comet lander, lost since its tumultuous touchdown on the comet on November 12, 2014, turned up in images taken by the Rosetta orbiter on September 2.

Mathematical models, combined with our understanding of how planets and comets form, suggest that the objects in the Oort cloud must have been flung there by one of the giant planets closer to the sun.

As the comet traveled across the system, it was deflected by the planets, like a ball bouncing around in a pinball machine, until Jupiter's gravity set its current orbit, Jewitt said.

Based on various lines of indirect evidence, astronomers are fairly sure that the sun is surrounded by a huge cloud of dormant comets — trillions of them, probably — that move in lazy orbits extending halfway to the nearby stars.

A flurry of spacecraft, led by a European craft called Giotto, flew past Giacobini - Zinner in 1985 and Halley's comet in 1986.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

If sunlight must penetrate the dust covering a comet's water ice in order to warm it and produce jets, Sunshine says the Deep Impact findings suggest the ices on such dormant comets may not have run out but merely become sealed — by layers of debris, for example.

First, planetary scientists suspect that cyanide was abundant on early Earth, deposited here by comets or created in the atmosphere by ultraviolet light or by lightning (once the atmosphere became oxygen rich, 2.5 billion years ago, the process would have stopped).

Old assumptions about comets are faltering as results emerge from data collected by the Deep Impact spacecraft in July 2005, when the probe's impactor detached from the mother ship and crashed into the comet at 37,000 kilometres (23,000 miles) per hour.

But disintegration would in some ways be even more revealing because it would provide data on the comet's internal construction — and, by extension, on the way it formed in the first place.

But in October of that year the comet had a huge and still poorly understood outburst, brightening by 14 magnitudes — a factor of 400,000!

The precious payload — comet flecks embedded in aerogel and protected by a heat - resistant casing — will parachute to the desert floor in Utah.

Amy Barr and Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, think they know why: the moons were pummelled to differing degrees by wayward comets during the «late heavy bombardment», a cataclysmic period that began 3.9 billion years ago.

Often known as the Triangulum Galaxy it was observed by the French comet hunter Charles Messier in August 1764, who listed it as number 33 in his famous list of prominent nebulae and star clusters.

Since that time, material vaporizing from sunlit areas of the comet and then condensing in shadowed regions (which a recent report suggests are about 50 °C cooler than those illuminated by the sun) may have helped form the neck joining the once - separate objects.

«In the past, astronomers thought that comets die when they are warmed by sunlight, causing their ices to simply vaporize away,» Jewitt said.

Comet researchers got a bonus in 2001 when NASA's Deep Space 1 probe zipped by comet Borrelly.

This is because pockets of gas rich in heavy elements would be created if a comet in the outer regions of a solar system got vaporised by a dying star in its red giant phase or by the expanding planetary nebula that follows it (arxiv.org/abs/1001.4513).

The tradition begun by the Voyager twins, which outlasted their missions to Jupiter and Saturn by decades and are now reporting from the edges of the solar system, continues today: In March a combination of luck and solid engineering allowed the Stardust probe to complete its second comet - chasing mission.

Jenniskens and Brian Marsden, director of the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hypothesize that the parent comet was spotted in 1490 by Asian astronomers before it fell apart.

Trigo states: «While it is true that many of these dangerous projectiles come from the main belt of asteroids after being gravitationally scattered towards the Earth by the so - called planetary resonances, in 2007 we proposed other physical mechanisms that enable these rocks to be detached from asteroids or comets as they undergo close approaches to our planet.»

Seen in seismic - reflection profiles, and in gravity and magnetic surveys, it has traits that are consistent with impact craters, which are caused by collisions with asteroids and comets.

«Some of the most interesting sites will be those that offer fresh material — perhaps exposed by an impact, a crack or plume activity like comets have — and those with diverse material,» said Keiko Nakamura - Messenger, OSIRIS - REx sample site scientist and the deputy lead for curation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

- The giant radio telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Network — which perform radio and radar astronomy research in addition to their communications functions — were tasked with observing radio emissions from Jupiter's radiation belt, looking for disturbances caused by comet dust.

Once the spacecraft matches its velocity to the «fish» — the comet or asteroid in this case — it is ready to land by simply reeling in the tether and descending gently.

The other finalist, the Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR) mission, would launch a spacecraft before the end of 2025 to collect a 100 - gram sample from the surface of comet 67P, which was mapped by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, and return it to Earth in 2038.

The glass itself, one large polished piece of which has a prominent place in a necklace that belonged to Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, has been dated to 28.5 million years and has long been thought to be the result of a meteorite impact or an airburst caused by a comet breaking up in Earth's atmosphere.

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.

Observers around the world saw Jupiter whacked by impacts on three occasions, including the dramatic multiple beating it took in 1994 by the comet Shoemaker - Levy 9.

It never comes close enough to be affected by the sun, but it never goes far enough away from the sun to be affected by other stars, which is the case with comets that have been observed in the Kuiper belt.

The gasses escaping from the comet become electrically charged in the sunlight and are then blown away by the solar wind.

By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, via both remote and in - situ observations, the Rosetta mission should be a key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth's water and perhaps even life.

In January the Stardust spacecraft cruised by Earth and tossed down a 95 - pound canister packed with comet particles and interstellar dust, souvenirs scooped up during its seven - year journey past comet Wild 2.

Because the Explorer was «very tenuously held by Earth,» says Farquhar, it was relatively easy to break that connection in 1982 and send the craft off on an unplanned mission — to fly through the tail of the comet Giacobini - Zinner.

Stardust's cache was sanitized by intense heat as comet particles collided at 14,000 miles per hour with foamy aerogel in the probe's dust collector.