Sentences with phrase «faster than asteroids»

«Comets travel much faster than asteroids, and some of them are very big,» Mainzer said.

Not exact matches

The MIT group found nearly 50 asteroids within a couple of months — far faster than their competitors.

Asteroids can collide at speeds of 10,000 mph — faster than a speeding bullet!

Spurred by human activity, the crisis is occurring faster and could extinguish more species than the gigantic asteroid strike that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

It would orbit faster than Earth and, looking outwards, would see asteroids in Earth - crossing orbits more often than would ground - based instruments.

If one of those objects ever fell toward Earth, it would be tougher to spot than a comet (being much darker) and more difficult to divert than the typical near - Earth asteroid (as it would be traveling much faster).

Because smaller chunks of asteroids drift from the point of collision faster than larger pieces do, these asteroid families become shaped like the letter «V.» Smaller pieces spread out far and wide from the original impact site, while larger fragments remain condensed at the point.

We are killing off life on earth faster than the fatal dino asteroid.

But superstorms are, fortunately, not faster than a speeding bullet (leave that to asteroids and comets).)

Rate of change makes a difference; we're causing change far faster than any natural event short of a supervolcano or asteroid impact, and we're persisting at doing it.

The rate of change from human causes is far faster than any past event short of an asteroid impact.