Sentences with phrase «findings about the asteroid»

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Combining images from the various telescopes, an international team found that the asteroid varies in brightness by a factor of about 10 every 7.3 hours, matching its spin about its axis.

To get a sense of how people would feel about finding intelligent aliens, Varnum analyzed reports that the interstellar asteroid «Oumuamua could be an alien spaceship (SN Online: 12/18/17).

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

The results could solve several puzzles about the composition of meteorites found on Earth and may explain why asteroids are different from comets.

NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.

On the one hand there was a quest by scientists to find the world's funniest joke, and on the other, dire warnings about the dangers of mobile phones, an increase in the incidence of new variant CJD, climate change, and cosmic threats to Earth in the shape of asteroids and gamma ray bursts.

Space scientist William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, says the findings reveal much about the physical evolution of asteroids.

• In the News Focus section of Science this week, Robert Irion, who directs the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writes about a private foundation that is raising money for a space mission to find asteroids that could harm Earth.

«We may not even know what we should be looking for in these asteroids, but by looking at what molecules we find, we can ask different and more questions about how they could have helped get life started.»

«Asteroids were being found, but no one was doing anything about what happens if we find one with our address on it,» says Rusty Schweickart, emeritus chair of B612 and an Apollo 9 astronaut.

«What's neat about what we found is that when the asteroid hit, it completely flipped how the oceans worked.

WISE is expected to find about 100,000 new asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and hundreds of asteroids that pass close to Earth.

From that, Saint - Exupery spun a fanciful, faintly ethereal fable about a downed airman who finds himself face - to - face with a curious, blond - haired young boy who claims to be the sole inhabitant of a distant asteroid (# B - 612), and who regales the pilot with tales of the interplanetary travels that eventually brought him to earth.

Amber waves of grain, waving sunlit flags, and Midwestern boys playing baseball are what our heroes are fighting for: New York City and its liberal stongholds, not so much (an early scene finds asteroid chunks knocking about the Big Apple's skyscrapers, scaring and / or crushing jive - talking city folk like Eddie Griffin's bike messenger).

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Find out more about Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime by visiting the official Asteroid Base blog as it revs up for its expected 2013 release.