Sentences with phrase «main belt of»
Unlike the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in the main belt of our solar system, which move cleanly along their orbits, active asteroids were discovered several years ago mimicking comets with their tails formed by calm, long lasting ice sublimation.
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Later, other cosmic bodies with similar orbits were found, marking the discovery of our solar system's main belt of asteroids.
Trigo states: «While it is true that many of these dangerous projectiles come from the main belt of asteroids after being gravitationally scattered towards the Earth by the so - called planetary resonances, in 2007 we proposed other physical mechanisms that enable these rocks to be detached from asteroids or comets as they undergo close approaches to our planet.»
Not exact matches
The latest reboot in Hollywood's conveyer belt of old movies getting a spit - shine for a new generation is The Brave Little Toaster, one of history's better children's movies that features a talking toaster as the main protagonist.
The company's main distribution area is what Vice President Dave Ramsay calls «the pizza belt of America.»
I thought it was the «not 2 main champions» (I can understand Roode in this case, getting a shot at WWE men belt) and «not tag team champs» list, where they decided who got a shot of opportunity for the main titles
WWE desperately wants to cement him as a top star, and after some of the questionable booking early in his Smackdown run, I think giving him the belt at the end of a (potentially) instant - classic match helps cement him as a WWE main - eventer.
this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all
Dana White clearly knows Nate is a draw, Nate was never put on main event spots on PPV until his fights with Conor, first one had 10 days promotion, both fights were outside both fighters weight class, all in the usual location of Vegas, no milestone numbers (196 and 202), no belt, in fact UFC202 had no belt on the entire card yet they broke all PPV records, Conor vs Mendes did did not even reach 1m despite having the likes of Lawler title fight, as UFC 194, it was against Aldo for the belt after months and months of promotion and also against Alvarez following the stock - raising Diaz fights at MSG, NY for the first time ever, Champ Vs Champ on a stacked card with 3 title fights and the likes of Khabib on the prelims... still did not do PPV numbers with Nate.
In space, Nysa is a group of asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
That's the main purpose of England's 14 Green Belts - to protect our largest and most historic towns and cities from merging into one endless metropolis.
This belt really pumps it up with the two victory torches that are on either side of the main plate.
David Jewitt of UCLA, co-discoverer of the first main - belt comets, agrees.
But it is not clear how common ice might be in the main asteroid belt, because sunlight is expected to quickly vaporise ice on the surfaces of airless bodies that fly closer to the sun than Jupiter.
The density of the mammoth main - belt asteroid Ceres suggests it contains a large amount of water ice, but no clear - cut sign of ice has been found on its surface.
In 2008, however, Andrew Rivkin of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, and Joshua Emery of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, found hints (pdf) that the asteroid 24 Themis, which sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, could have water ice on its surface.
These so - called «main - belt comets» are too distant and faint for astronomers to scan their spectra for signs of water ice.
«This kind of hitchhiking could be used for multiple targets in the main asteroid belt or the Kuiper Belt, even five to 10 in a single mission,» Ono said.
By aggregating the sizes of the modern dark asteroids, researchers suggest the original dark planetesimals formed about 4 billion years ago, making this one of the oldest asteroid families in the main belt; most asteroid families are thought to have formed about 1 billion years ago.
The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from the dwarf planet.
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was part of an international team that recently discovered a relatively unpopulated region of the main asteroid belt, where the few asteroids present are likely pristine relics from early in solar system history.
«We identified all known families and their members and discovered a gigantic void in the main belt, populated by only a handful of asteroids.
«By identifying all the families in the main belt, we can figure out which asteroids have been formed by collisions and which might be some of the original members of the asteroid belt,» said SwRI Astronomer Dr. Kevin Walsh, a coauthor of the online Science paper detailing the findings.
The team used a new search technique that also identified the oldest known asteroid family, which extends throughout the inner region of the main asteroid belt.
«These days we average three NEO discoveries a day, and each month the Minor Planet Center receives hundreds of thousands of observations on asteroids, including those in the main - belt.
Most notably, Xena sits at a rakish 45 - degree angle to the main planets, making a mockery of the old idea that the Kuiper belt is literally a belt.
Astronomers have identified the oldest asteroid families and, by process of elimination, the oldest intact asteroids in the main belt.
«Primordial asteroids discovered: Discoveries include a void in the main belt and the oldest family of asteroids.»
- A two - person team of Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory has discovered a new active asteroid, called 62412, in the Solar System's main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Centaurs are distinct from the much more numerous main belt asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and may have come from the Kuiper Belt region.
Dwarf planet Ceres is located in the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, as illustrated in this artist's conception.
In its wake, the collision left a planetary disk that formed the moon and sent bits of proto - planet flying into our solar system's main asteroid belt.
«Even allowing that our estimate of the trans - Neptunian population is uncertain by a factor of several,» write Jewitt and Luu, «it is clear that these distant objects vastly outnumber the main - belt asteroids of comparable size.»
Vesta is one of the largest bodies in the main asteroid belt.
It's possible the object was traveling in an orbit that required it to journey from the innermost part of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
But which regions are wet and dry are also determined by the locations of the Earth's main rain belts.
Kevin Trenbeth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the study didn't account for changes in sea surface temperatures, which are the main drivers of changes in the position of the rain belts (as is seen during an El Nino event, when Pacific warming pushes the subtropical jet over the Western U.S. southward).
Ceres, the largest body between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt, has a diameter of about 590 miles (950 kilometers).
These newly discovered main - belt comets, and now Themis, «are very interesting objects and potentially one of the sources of Earth's oceans,» Cruikshank says.
And the main effect of streetlights is, like seat belts, to encourage drivers to drive faster.
Although Kuiper belt objects are not the main quarry of Spacewatch, the project's astronomers did find 560 - mile - wide Varuna, a dwarf planet candidate.
For decades, research on climate variations in the Atlantic has focused almost exclusively on the role of ocean circulation as the main driver, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which carries warm water north in the upper layers of the ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large conveyor belt.
Boulder, Colo. — Aug. 3, 2017 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was part of an international team that recently discovered a relatively unpopulated region of the main asteroid belt, where the few asteroids present are likely pristine relics from early in solar system history.
Kamuela, HI — Combining observations from the world's largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main - belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a complex interior, thanks to the presence of two moons orbiting the main asteroid, and probably linked to the way the multiple system was formed.
The new belt lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system, with an orbit tilted 27 degrees from the main ring plane.
The mean density of distant planetesimals is expected to be markedly different from that of native main - belt asteroids.
They are similar to main belt asteroids but are colder and better preserved, remaining virtually unchanged over billions of years.
The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles from the dwarf planet.
Scientists think that a giant asteroid, which broke up long ago in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, eventually made its way to Earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Signatures of a Mars mega impact may therefore be recorded in main - belt asteroids or in meteorites found on Earth, providing tantalizing targets for future studies in the effort to map out Mars's past.