Sentences with phrase «comet on a collision course»

You mention global myths of a great flood as supporting evidence, but even the article only states,» [a] lmost every culture has a legend about a great flood, and — with a little reading between the lines — many of them mention something like a comet on a collision course with Earth just before the disaster.»

Then two comets on a collision course with earth movies.

Not exact matches

In the Fornax cluster (right) the core cloud is swept back like a comet's tail toward the top of the image, indicating it is moving through even more diffuse gas on a collision course with the galaxy at lower left.

Prematurely billed by the tabloids as the «killer comet» about to strike Earth, Hale - Bopp is fortunately not on a collision course with us.

Confirmation of the end of mission is expected from ESA's main control room at 11:20 GMT or 13:20 CEST + / - 20 minutes on 30 September, with the spacecraft set on a collision course with the comet the evening before.

On July 4, 2011, Lockheed Martin astrophysicist Karel Schrijver spotted the comet on satellite images and quickly determined that it was on a collision course with the suOn July 4, 2011, Lockheed Martin astrophysicist Karel Schrijver spotted the comet on satellite images and quickly determined that it was on a collision course with the suon satellite images and quickly determined that it was on a collision course with the suon a collision course with the sun.

SYNOPSIS: When a group of ordinary people learn that an eight - mile wide comet is on a collision course with Earth, they hunker beneath the town -LSB-...]

I have a story in the Sunday Week in Review section on the astronomers and activists seeking to get more sustained investment not only in looking for asteroids and comets that could someday slam into Earth, but also seriously pursuing and testing ways to nudge them off a collision course.