Sentences with phrase «large meteor»

A very large meteor would take care of that little problem.

That could yield 20 or so Taurid meteors that streak across the sky each hour, including a handful of particularly large meteors that create bright «fireballs».

This one must have developed immunity to large meteors and did not evolve to see that we are all in the same boat, to share whatever is to come.

I just don't get the reasoning of how would a large meteor discriminate between this genius and the rest of the «stupid» bunch.

Sometimes it is as simple as being in the wrong place at the wrong time (where a large meteor impacts for example).

For example, there reallyw as a large meteor shower int he md - 1800s that people though heraled the Day of Judgement.

This in turn has re-raised the antipodal pair impact hypothesis, the idea that pairs of opposite hot spots may result from the impact of a large meteor.

When Comet C / 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) passed just 140,000 kilometres from Mars on 19th October 2014, depositing a large amount of debris in the martian atmosphere, space agencies coordinated multiple spacecraft to witness the largest meteor shower in recorded history.

The first was a large meteor that exploded over central Russia, which was followed by the closest predicted pass of an asteroid.

(Imagine the distant thud of a large meteor hit.)

A large meteor or comet would also fit the definition, but there's something of a question as to who pays claims after an extinction event.

Slurp up to a large meteor and there's the yellow ghost inside.

Upon logging in for the first time after updating, players are shown a short cinematic showing a large meteor finally touching down on the island.

The graphic visualizes the 100 largest meteors that have fallen on Earth's surface.

Given obviously irregular character of all historical data regarding climate, it is a tough sell to start with an assumption that everything is in a global equilibrium, and only spontaneous external events like eruptions or large meteors are the cause of that variability.

A combination involving some or all of the following is postulated: Continental drift created a non-fatal but precariously balanced global environment, a supernova weakened the ozone layer, and then a large meteor impact triggered the eruption of the Siberian Traps.

A large meteor or comet would also fit the definition, but there's something of a question as to who pays claims after an extinction event.

Those on the ground there may possibly be treated to a «splendid» light show, as China's space agency put it, as if a large meteor is breaking up in the upper atmosphere.