Sentences with phrase «find small asteroids»

It is the first of a new generation of telescopes designed to find small asteroids and comets whose orbits bring them close to that of the Earth.

But in 2003, astronomers found a small asteroid moving along the Blanpain orbit, suggesting the space rock might be the comet (or a piece of it) after...

Two to three times a month, it scans the entire night sky, looking for anything that moves or changes — a powerful tool for finding small asteroids.

Not exact matches

Rings are common sights around the four largest planets of the solar system, but astronomers reported in March that they had found the celestial circles around an unexpected and much smaller fifth target: an asteroid named (10199) Chariklo.

The find should help astronomers determine how much dust in the solar system originates in asteroid collisions; such impacts may also create fragments that reach Earth as small meteorites.

As improved telescope technology finds smaller and more distant asteroids, astronomers have identified clusters of similar - looking bodies clumped in analogous orbits.

Climate change research also got a warm reception — a 6 % spending increase spread out over 13 agencies — and NASA was excited to find a plan to kidnap a small asteroid in its budget proposal.

Surveys show that we have found nearly all of the potentially world - destroying asteroids — those larger than a kilometre — but many smaller objects remain uncatalogued.

The team found that only unusual cases involving two small, widely separated asteroids are guaranteed to form a pair of distinct craters.

The formation of this system made of a dual primary and a small moon is still a mystery, but they found the asteroid could be a captured Kuiper body product of the reshuffling of giant planets in our solar system.

By 1846, astronomers had found two more planets, Uranus and Neptune, as well as a number of smaller bodies called asteroids.

Like Ceres and the asteroids before it, Pluto was found to be just one small body in a population of thousands.

You play as a small triangle - shaped ship and fly around a pixelated world trying to find victory amongst evil asteroids and nefarious ships which mean to do you harm.

I mean, after all, your telescopes are now finding the larger asteroids that make close passes by Earth, and soon they'll be finding the smaller ones like the Tunguska impactor.

The reason I stuck with it is that it's hard to find a demographer or other expert on population and social trends who sees even a small chance of humankind's peaking at anything lower than nine billion — barring some catastrophic epidemic or asteroid strike.