Sentences with phrase «giant impact on a planet»
The astronomers concluded there were no excess infrared emissions and therefore no sign of an asteroid belt collision, a giant impact on a planet or a dusty cloud of rock and debris.
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«Giant planet formation in the inner part of this disk, where CI Tau b is located, will have a profound impact on the region where smaller terrestrial planets are also potentially forming.»
The idea that a very disruptive collision of Earth with another planet - sized body, the biggest event in Earth's geological history, did not completely melt and homogenize Earth challenges some of our notions on planet formation and the energetics of giant impacts.
Chris Darimont discusses the impact of humans» unique predatory behavior on the planet, and Catherine Matacic talks with Sarah Crespi about whistled languages, Neolithic massacres, and too many gas giants.
The predicted hosts for the Klosneuviruses are protists (single - celled eukaryotic (nucleus - containing) microorganisms) and while their direct impacts on protists are not yet worked out, these giant viruses are thought to have a large impact on these protists that help regulate the planet's biogeochemical cycles.
Was it radiated out to space rapidly, perhaps due to the giant impact which tipped it over on its side, or is that heat somehow trapped inside the planet today?
New research has revealed that a giant impact on Mars more than four billion years ago would explain the unusual amount of «iron loving» elements in the Red Planet.