Sentences with phrase «kilometers per hour struck»

The burst occurred when a giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona, and moving with a speed of about 2.5 million kilometers per hour struck our planet, causing a severe compression of Earth's magnetosphere from 11 to 4 times the radius of Earth.

Not exact matches

Hurricanes wreak havoc when they strike the shore, especially those with winds exceeding 200 kilometers per hour.

MRO's new images support this interpretation and strongly suggest that the sizable dark patch is a crater produced when Schiaparelli struck the surface at greater than 300 kilometers per hour after a two - to - four - kilometer free fall.

The tentative verdict is that this probably is the remnant of a recent asteroid collision, where a smaller body struck a larger object at a velocity of about 15,000 kilometer per hour.

Colliding at speeds up to 22,000 miles per hour (36,000 kilometers per hour), such a collision may have stripped most of the rocky mantle from the protoplanet that became Mercury with its iron - rich core, while a Mars - size protoplanet struck the early Earth off - center and created a spray of mostly mantle material that later accreted to form the Moon.

Only six years later, Hurricane Hattie struck the central coastal area of the country, with winds in excess of 300 kilometers per hour and four - meter storm tides.