Sentences with phrase «generated by an asteroid»

The heat generated by an asteroid accounted for nearly 30 percent of lives lost, according to the study.

Not exact matches

Over millions of years, these planets become shrouded by orbiting debris generated from the collision of comets, asteroids, and other objects.

Either wobbly rotation produced by Earth's gravitational tug or asteroids smacking into the lunar surface may have triggered enough turbulence in the moon's molten core to generate a long - lasting magnetic field, report two teams of scientists in the Nov. 10 Nature.

A new study of the hazards posed by impact - generated waves suggests that coastlines face substantial risks of being slammed by tsunamis from asteroid spla

«This is the first study that looks at all seven impact effects generated by hazardous asteroids and estimates which are, in terms of human loss, most severe,» said Clemens Rumpf, a senior research assistant at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Giant planet interiors are inaccessible to direct study from above, but oscillations excited by asteroid and comet impact can generate waves that are potentially observable.

The recent announcement that $ 100 million had been earmarked in the White House's FY 2014 Budget Proposal Request to send an unmanned probe to an asteroid and have it transported back to lunar orbit to be studied by astronauts has generated a lot of buzz.

The meteorite is an achondrite, a relatively rare type of space rock that comes from a planet or big asteroid — something large that generated enough internal heat early in its history to melt partially, producing a metallic core surrounded by rock.

On October 4, 2010, some astronomers announced that asteroid 21 Lutetia may be covered by a 2,000 - feet (600 - meter) deep layer of dusty debris generated by billions of years of meteorite impacts (Jonathan Amos, BBC News, October 4, 2010).

Together, we steered our ship through randomly generated asteroid fields, destroyed enemy ships, rescued adorable rabbits before finally being blown to pieces by an Ursa Major bear boss.

1) Nudge a 1 - mi diameter nickel - iron asteroid into near - Earth orbit, and it will (rather readily) yield as much precious metal as has been mined from the Earth's crust in all history, plus huge amounts of base metals (useful mostly for large - scale orbital construction, etc.) 2) Plasma torches from either self - generated Syngas or from prospective fusion plants will enable nearly complete recycling of all waste, including landfills and equipment graveyards, etc., by reducing it to pure elemental form.