Sentences with phrase «caused by a meteor»

Today you look at craters on the earth with no hesitation in the belief they are in fact, craters caused by meteors.

The earthshaking rumblings felt in Michigan last night weren't an earthquake, but rather vibrations from a booming noise caused by a meteor whizzing overhead, according to the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC).

Theories about the meteor first began with Tilted Towers as the main target, but a recent leak by a community member told players that Dusty Depot would be the intended target of the mass destruction caused by the meteor, and now it has finally been confirmed.

Granted that period was caused by the meteor off the coast of the yucatan but many of the changes were similar to the ones that are merely starting now.

Not exact matches

Too, it need be considered why Jupiter is where it is and its size, for it's huge size (mass) has a strong gravitational effect on meteors and asteroids going near it, causing them to either be absorbed by it or deflecting them away from the earth.

The cumulative weight of Bultmann's prodigious career, focused into the concrete programme of demythologizing, burst like a meteor into the void caused by the attrition of the Nazi ideology, the war and post-war collapse, and the passing of such leading New Testament scholars as Lietzmann, Büchsel, Behm, von Soden, Lohmeyer, Kittel, Dibelius, and Schniewind.

And a near miss between Earth and Mars could cause much of the Martian crust to be ripped off by Earth's gravity, pulling thousands of meteors onto our planet.

The majority of the injuries in the Chelyabinsk impact were caused by broken glass sent flying into the faces of unknowing locals peering through their windows after the meteor's bright flash, he noted.

Basically meteor showers are caused by ice particles left behind by comets, and we run into them.

Most of the annual meteor showers are caused by debris left behind by comets.

This meant only one thing: The groundbreaking Saturn mission had come to an end — the spacecraft had encountered the uppermost atmosphere of Saturn and, 45 seconds later, it burned up like an artificial meteor caused by the intense heat of hitting the atmosphere at 75,000 miles (120,700 kilometers) per hour.

The world, which isn't War World, has been devastated by meteors, causing massive deaths around the world.

From what data exists about previous peroids of rapid climate change (i.e. climate change caused by an intrinsic mechanism such as a meteor impact, massive volcanic activity or human activity, as opposed to sun cycles), it seems that climate does show such behavior too.

Chesapeake Bay is the site of an ancient impact crater, caused by a comet or meteor.

Then throw in massive volcanic eruptions and huge continent wide brush fires caused by volcanoes or meteor showers (both theories I have seen in the literature) and you have many events that could cause climate disruption on a large scale.