Sentences with phrase «like other asteroids»

Active asteroids have stable orbits between Mars and Jupiter like other asteroids.

The orbit calculations revealed beyond any doubt that this body did not originate from inside the Solar System, like all other asteroids or comets ever observed, but instead had come from interstellar space.

Not exact matches

(Other startups, like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, are trying to achieve similar ends by landing on asteroids.)

Other earlier - stage deals include flying cars, lunar drones and asteroid mining, while longer - standing investments like Sogou (search) and China Literature (e-publishing) have gone public over the past month.

Ever since Isac learnt how to walk and talk, he and his sister have become like two asteroids, constantly spinning around each other with a kind of magnetic force keeping them both together and apart.

And then I try envisioning what it will be like when another, smaller asteroid enters their orbits and takes part in that spinning dance around each other.

But the researchers discovered an oddity that made them question whether the gems came from an asteroid at all: The diamonds had grown around even smaller crystals of iron and sulfur, which normally would repel each other like oil and water, says EPFL physicist Cécile Hébert.

With the help of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German - led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting each other and exhibiting comet - like features, including a bright coma and a long tail.

Like the three other big outer - solar - system objects discovered in the past three years — including 560 - mile - wide Varuna, found in 2000 — Quaoar resides in the Kuiper belt, a wide swath of asteroids located past Neptune.

Other asteroids like Bennu may have seeded the early, prebiotic Earth with this material, contributing to the primordial soup from which life eventually emerged.

You've done these vulcanoid surveys and studies of other asteroids, meteors, and comets from the backseat of a high - performance aircraft, like a WB - 57 or a F / A -18 Hornet fighter jet.

But isotopes of some noble gases in the stone are nothing like those found in other meteorites, which all came from asteroids that formed inside the orbit of Jupiter.

The meteorites» mineralogical composition showed that, like Earth and the other rocky planets but unlike almost all other asteroids, the newly formed Vesta melted and stratified into a rocky crust, a mantle, and an iron.

Like so many other asteroids, Ida 243 is irregularly shaped and loosely composed of rubble.

And, like the rest of the asteroids, it stopped growing far short of the mass needed to gravitationally clear other bodies from the vicinity of its orbit.

It really made me feel like they just want to spend money on design and fabricate some test vehicles but not launch them because # 1 it to expensive and # 2 they really don't know where to go or than an asteroid mission because Planetary Resources really doesn't want to spend their own money on R&D... Considering the events in the Ukraine and Iran... The world may end before the SLS / Orion goes anywhere other LEO or maybe just maybe to the Moon!!!

Tim Spahr directs the Minor Planet Center, the global clearinghouse for all information about asteroids, comets and other relatively small bodies like moons.

In other words, the asteroid would have had to strike a place just like Chicxulub.

Just like radar systems here on Earth, scientists instead actively produce a radio signal directed at an object like the asteroid Phaethon, then wait for that signal to bounce back and be detected like any other signal.

Like other objects in the Main Asteroid Belt, Ceres moves around the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Super Stardust Delta, is, like its predecessors, a more complex version of Asteroids that on a basic level sees you taking charge of a little ship and disintegrating the incoming asteroids and other hazards with variousAsteroids that on a basic level sees you taking charge of a little ship and disintegrating the incoming asteroids and other hazards with variousasteroids and other hazards with various weapons.

Even earlier, Atari Inc.'s «Atarisoft» divison ported arcade games by Atari (like Asteroids and Crystal Castles) and others (like Namco's Pole Position and Williams Electronic's Joust and Robotron: 2084) to a variety of early 1980s home computers, like the Apple II, Commodore 64 and BBC Micro!

Kinda like going back and playing PacMan or Frogger or Asteroids or any other classice I used to play in the arcarde.