Sentences with phrase «from space rocks»

Atheists seem to think, if thinking they do, intelligence sprang from some space rock or a bog of mud.

The entry and crash would release iridium from the space rock, and iridium would waft across the globe and settle on Earth's surface, eventually becoming part of the very rock Alvarez held in his hand.

Not exact matches

The agency's European counterpart, ESA, has suggested that moon rock and Mars dust could be used to 3D print structures and tools, which could significantly reduce the cost of future space missions because less material would need to be brought along from Earth.

Today, he beams himself beyond the third rock from the sun and into space.

Mary: «But they don't know if the rock came from the Earth, or from out of space, so it could just as easily be green cheese.»

Here's some tragic and altogether unusual news: Officials said yesterday that a man in India died over the weekend when a rock from outer space hit ground near him.

A tree can be said to have a definite position in time and space, and a rock dropped from a window will fall at a predictable rate to a predictable spot on the ground.

From pint and rocks glasses to stemless wineglasses, this collection brings the brilliance of outer space into the home.

Chelsea looks rocked and a bit out of sorts, slow to every ball, and the pressure finally told when Eriksen got a bit of space and scored a thumper from 21 yards.

Scott Parker was losing stamina and eventually France found more space to have a go on Joe Hart's goal from distance but again could not create clear cut opportunities as English defense was rock solid.

A whole set of space activities over at Mrs Karen's Class — from firey suns, to rockets, to moon rocks, to collages.

A Republican lawmaker on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee said Thursday that rocks from the White Cliffs of Dover and the California coastline, as well as silt from rivers tumbling into the ocean, are contributing to high sea levels globally.

Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.

A chunk of space rock may have been forged inside a long - lost planet from the early solar system.

A clean curation lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, holding Apollo rocks collected from the moon.

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.

While space rocks hurtling in from space threaten to deal modern life a mortal blow, meteorite impacts during Earth's early history may have played a pivotal role in kick - starting life on the planet.

Analysis of the Almahata Sitta meteorite reveals that it is an achondrite, a rare type of space rock that comes from celestial bodies that are large enough to generate internal heat early in their history so as to produce metallic cores surrounded by rock.

Knowing that the empty desert was a good place to find rocks from space, and that meteorite dealers would pay good money for them, he picked up about three dozen that looked related.

In that case, the ice seen on the surface now would once have been buried beneath dust and rock that insulated it from the sun's heat and prevented it from escaping into space.

In 2008, pieces of diamond encased in rock descended from space and landed in the Nubian Desert of Sudan.

But in 2003 two papers noted that there are other ways to make magnetite crystals, such as slamming a rock from space onto the Martian surface.

The strain is accommodated by either rocks sliding past one another, causing earthquakes, or by molten rocks welling up from deep underground to fill the opening space, ultimately leading to volcanic eruptions.

Amid fears about global warming, terrorism, disease, and nuclear proliferation, the threat of rocks from space may seem more the province of bad Hollywood movies than front - page news.

When a rock from space crashed to ground 38 million years ago, it briefly heated the impact zone to 2370 °C, the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth's crust

Visible from space, the Bayan — Obo iron mine in Inner Mongolia is the world's largest source of rare earths, and the Chinese companies supplying them employ acid to dissolve them out of ore rock that often also contains radioactive elements like thorium, radium or even uranium.

Precisely dating meteorites from the salvo, researchers found that the space rock barrage began at least 2 million years after the start of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event.

This story follows the trek of a space rock from its discovery in an ice field to a lab, where researchers probe the rock's origins (perhaps some asteroid or the moon) and then send bits of the meteorite to a library.

Straight away, the Hypatia mineral matrix (represented by fruitcake dough), looks nothing like that of any known meteorites, the rocks that fall from space onto Earth every now and then.

During a video showing images of the earth from space, rally - goers silently lifted their signs like lighters at a rock concert.

The rock blocks cosmic rays — high - energy particles from space that could mimic a WIMP's arrival.

As he explored the space with his colleagues, Russell Graham, a paleontologist from Pennsylvania State University, lifted a rock near the back.

The new Vesta photos from the Dawn probe, which NASA unveiled today (Aug. 1), include the spacecraft's first full - frame view of the entire asteroid and should help astronomers understand how the space rock formed in the early solar system, researchers said.

It is the residual heat of creation — the afterglow of the big bang — streaming through space these last 14 billion years like the heat from a sun - warmed rock, reradiated at night.

We will rock you into outer space Queen guitarist Brian May is a stone's throw from completing what rock superstardom interrupted more than 30 years ago: his astrophysics PhD.

There, the microscopically small grains of rock from the core are catapulted along with ice particles into space, where they were measured by the instruments on the Cassini space probe,» explained the Heidelberg planetary scientist.

So any rocks you see on the surface of these thick ice sheets in Antarctica have to come from space.

The Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a new plan for protecting Earth from hazardous space rocks

If there is a key stepping - stone from Earth to Mars, this odd, intriguing space rock could be it.

The age of the Chinga meteorite means that no one alive when the Space Buddha was carved would have seen this particular rock fall from the sky.

Subtle pressure from a million years of sunlight gradually spun up the space rock until it was rotating too fast...

We know some precursor molecules came to Earth from space because amino acids are found in meteorites — fallen space rocks.

Plumes of water thought to be spewed into space from the ocean would make the search easier — but now it seems these plumes could just be warm rocks.

«If phosphorus is sourced from supernovae, and then travels across space in meteoritic rocks, I'm wondering if a young planet could find itself lacking in reactive phosphorus because of where it was born?

«The crystals could protect the organisms for many years — they could even protect them in space,» he says, suggesting astrobiologists might want to get their hands on some salt rocks from Mars.

meteor A lump of rock or metal from space.

Larger rocks from outer space have already changed Earth's climate, and caused mass extinctions.

Eventually, a stable rocky crust may have developed between Years 0.2 and 0.4 billion (see J. Bret Bennington's discussion of recycled zircons (crystals of zirconium silicate) from the rocks of western Australia in the Hadean Eon and the January 11, 2001 announcement of zircons found north of Perth that appear to be 4.4 billion years old), covered and surrounded by soupy water that was already rich with organic compounds from interstellar space.

They mystery is: why have we NOT been hit by a large rock from space during human times?

Recently, geologists suggested these grains may have formed in huge impact craters produced as chunks of rock from space, up to several kilometres in diameter, slammed into a young Earth.