Sentences with phrase «far as asteroids»

As far as Asteroids goes, there are XBLA Indie space shooters like Decimation X that Id rather spend time with, and they only cost 80 points each ($ 1).

Not exact matches

He has leveraged his formidable personality and network into a diverse web of businesses, building and investing in companies as far - flung as asteroid mining, credit cards, hospitality, nutritional supplements, private equity, sports teams, 3 - D printed prosthetics, and, most recently, wealth management.

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.

Incredible as it may seem, heat radiation is the greatest source of uncertainty when projecting which asteroids could hit Earth in the far future.

This is considered a standard model, as dust is formed during asteroid collisions far from the star and then spirals inward toward the star so that it is evenly distributed throughout the system.

Although the consequences are roughly comparable in either case, an important difference is that objects in the solar system that circle far away from the sun on long - period orbits before returning, such as comets, would hit the earth at much greater velocities than close - orbiting (short - period) bodies, such as asteroids.

What planetary scientists lump together as asteroids are far too diverse — from boulders to floating heaps of gravel to mini planets with signs of past volcanic activity and even liquid water — to have a single common origin.

Another possible scenario, though seen in only about 2 percent of the team's new simulations, is that Mars formed more than twice as far from the sun as its present - day orbit in the region currently inhabited by the asteroid belt.

So far, surveys have discovered several thousand near - Earth objects, but astronomers estimate that as many as a million have diameters greater than 50 metres, big enough to be dangerous in a collision with Earth (see UN urged to coordinate killer asteroid defences).

As for the ammonia - rich clay deposits, they provide evidence that Ceres may have originally formed farther out in the Solar System and then migrated inward to where it is now in the main asteroid belt.

In 2011, left - handed amino acids were discovered on asteroids, but so far not on comets, perhaps because on comets the outer layers are destroyed as they heat up.

The House's dissatisfaction with the Asteroid Initiative is further evidenced by the scheduling of a hearing (as reported by the Space Politics website) by the Science, Space, and Technology Committee for 10 a.m. on Feb. 27, which will also be webcast live, titled «Mars Flyby 2021: The First Deep Space Mission for the Orion and Space Launch System?»

He further said that with DART, they can show how to guard the planet Earth against an asteroid strike with a kinetic impactor by knocking the dangerous object into a different flight path that would not threaten the planet, as New Atlas noted.

And, «Developing nuclear - powered space shuttles will «support large - scale exploration and development of space resources, and make mining on asteroids and space solar power plants possible,» Xinhua quoted the report as saying, without adding further details.»

The Space, Science and Competitiveness Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held two hearings on further actions Congress could take to assist companies seeking to engage in commercial space activities, especially non-traditional ventures such as placing habitats in Earth orbit or on the Moon, satellite servicing, or asteroid mining.

As far as habitability goes, the researchers themselves point out another problem: due to the massive debris disk surrounding tau Ceti, the outer two planets are likely subject to intense bombardment via comets and asteroids, which would pose obvious issues for lifAs far as habitability goes, the researchers themselves point out another problem: due to the massive debris disk surrounding tau Ceti, the outer two planets are likely subject to intense bombardment via comets and asteroids, which would pose obvious issues for lifas habitability goes, the researchers themselves point out another problem: due to the massive debris disk surrounding tau Ceti, the outer two planets are likely subject to intense bombardment via comets and asteroids, which would pose obvious issues for life.

Here's the set - up: Libby Carter wanted to get away from it all, so she took a job mining asteroids as far out into the inky blackness as -LSB-...]

As far as I can tell, Armageddon: Operation Dragon is a game where you ride a dragon through outer space to stop an asteroid from hitting the eartAs far as I can tell, Armageddon: Operation Dragon is a game where you ride a dragon through outer space to stop an asteroid from hitting the eartas I can tell, Armageddon: Operation Dragon is a game where you ride a dragon through outer space to stop an asteroid from hitting the earth.

Atari once tried to reboot one of its older franchises, Asteroids, as a AAA - ish game of sorts, which deviated too far from the game's roots.

Avoid asteroids and rocks to fly as far as possible!How far can you get?

The building also houses other galleries such as Vox Populi, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Marginal Utility, Automat, The Great Far Beyond, Practice, and Grizzly Grizzly and is a major hub for Philadelphia's emerging art scene.

As we surely all agree, you don't remain silent about, say, an approaching asteroid (still far enough away so that a slight push could make it miss earth) until the chance of collision is > 95 percent.

I would actually cite things like Near Earth Asteroid research and Supervolcano research as far stronger examples, but even in this case it is the journalism that is «alarmist», far more so than any of the scientists.

And as you know shoving an asteroid slightly off its course is far simpler (and cheaper) than going out to take pictures of yet another of Saturn's moons!

To further obfuscate that point, offer as analagous examples situations like «asteroids coming at the earth» or «Star Wars» — situations where the existensial threat is known and the only uncertainty is how to deal with it.