Sentences with phrase «giant comet»
The phrase "giant comet" refers to a very large, icy object in space that resembles a comet, which is a space rock made up of ice and dust. Full definition
Boyajian's original hypothesis was that transiting swarms of giant comets caused the star's dimming.
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Larger bodies, such as giant comets, asteroids, and protoplanets, must have coalesced from the original disk and then crashed into one another.
Astronomers now think they were once all bits of a single giant comet that fragmented in the distant past.
That episode, called the Late Heavy Bombardment, may have been connected to the migrating orbits of some of the planets, which exiled Pluto to its current position and shook loose a barrage of giant comets.
Again, THE WORST THINGS ON TELEVISION, EVER MAYBE.they almost make me loath that the TV was even invented, the make me hope for a giant comet.
Astrophysicists now hypothesize that our planet would be transformed into a giant comet, thus resembling a «hairy» star just like GJ436b.
Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who collaborates with Stern on New Horizons, goes the other way and speaks of Pluto being «in some respects like a giant comet.»
She also says their findings reinforce the hypothesis that the Taurids stream is a remnant of a giant comet that disintegrated.
«Impact,» which was released on May 8, saw Earth under attack from a giant comet, while «Armageddon,» coming out on July 1, found the planet threatened by an asteroid.
Orc shamans called down giant comets to crush whole units of troops.