Sentences with phrase «meteor which»

The Long View on Sustainability Taking a very long view, there's going to be some serious problems to combat in the eons ahead e.g. a direct hit by a meteor which happens (in the cosmic sense) all the time.

For the past few weeks, the Fortnite community is abuzz with a lot of interesting details regarding the meteor which looks to be making its way into the game.

His parents left him, he gets picked on by everyone, finds a meteor which is actually a big blue turd, gets food thrown on him, has his leg humped by a dog, is covered in chemical feces, and falls in love.

The mugging is interrupted by what appears to be a meteor which falls from the sky and demolishes a car.

There is still the possibility that the purple meteor which hit Wakanda could have an orange stone in the centre of it, after all, the Mind stone appeared blue in The Avengers but cracked open to reveal a yellow gem in Age of Ultron.

According to the update's official patch notes, these meteors come in two varieties; orange meteors which can damage both monsters and hunters on impact while leaving a damaging field once they land, and green meteors which actually do the opposite, healing any characters in their impact field and leaving a healing aura on the ground.

Not exact matches

The meteor shower, which can last for weeks, peaks in visibility tonight.

The meteor shower, which usually takes place in November, gets its name from because some of its shooting stars appear to come from part of the Leo star constellation.

Special equipment — telescopes, binoculars — is not necessary to view the Lyrid meteor shower, which is safe to view with the naked eye.

Another view of the brilliant star Vega, which nearly coincides with the radiant point of April's Lyrid meteor shower.

It is our ancestor, a survivor of the meteor strike which decimated the dinosaurs and allowed us to take over the planet.

If you're lucky, you might even get to take in a meteor shower, which is common in the Los Cabos sky.

By excluding men under thirty - five from the first office, and those under thirty from the second, it confines the electors to men of whom the people have had time to form a judgment, and with respect to whom they will not be liable to be deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism, which, like transient meteors, sometimes mislead as well as dazzle.

Earth is surrounded by a cloud of debris, both natural — such as micrometeorites and comet dust, which create meteor showers — and unnatural, including dead satellites and the cast - off detritus of space launches.

The Perseid meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through debris left behind by the comet Swift - Tuttle, which last crossed the inner solar system in 1992.

But the authors of this new piece think they've come up with the explanation, and that they've gone over this area and they've reconstructed a scenario in which it could have been the case that some sort of small meteor did come to ground and what may help make the determination here, is that they think they've identified what may be a crater after all.

Which could mean that the dinos were in trouble even before the meteor hit.

Although no one is sure what triggers their formation, one theory is that cosmic dust, or debris from burned - up meteors, seed the ice particles, which is plausible because meteors typically are incinerated in the upper mesosphere at about the same altitude where these clouds form.

«After Christmas I wrote a paper about the Leonid meteors, which hopefully someone might publish, and now I'm working on the problem of micrometeors and how they behave.»

He presents debunked hypotheses — the moon as a captured asteroid — as well as the reigning theory, which posits that a massive collision between Earth and a Mars - size meteor left us with our beguiling satellite.

The meteors are bits of dust and rock from the tail of Comet Tempel - Tuttle, which does a loop around the sun every 33 years.

The team of researchers, which also included David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto and Caleb Brown of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, began by investigating whether the extinction at the end of the Cretaceous was an abrupt event or a progressive decline simply capped off by the meteor impact.

For centuries, skywatchers have reported seeing and simultaneously hearing meteors whizzing overhead, which doesn't make sense given that light travels roughly 800,000 times as fast as sound.

The observed metabolic activity of M. sedula coupled to the release of free soluble metals can certainly pave the way to extraterrestrial biomining, a technique which extracts metals from ores, launching the biologically assisted exploitation of raw materials from asteroids, meteors and other celestial bodies.

These swarms follow a looping orbit around the sun; the apparent source of the meteors, known as the radiant, marks the direction from which they hit us.

The various videos of the event reveal that the meteor was exceptionally bright, which means it qualifies as a «fireball.»

The meteor also created a sonic boom, which occurs when an object moves faster than sound waves in Earth's atmosphere.

Tracing the paths of the meteors backwards will lead to a point in the constellation Perseus, which gives the yearly display its name (scroll down for image).

The Perseids, which are impressive meteor showers that happen each year from mid-July to late August, have their peak activity around August 11 to 14.

The Perseids, which may deliver as many as 80 meteors per hour, should also be visible on the night of August 13.

The published data are based on three expeditions of the German research vessel METEOR, which took place off Peru between November 2012 and March 2013.

When the earth intersects this orbit in its annual trip, it can run into this debris, which burns up on entry into the earth's atmosphere, producing a visible shower of meteors.

Most light from meteors comes from spectral lines emitted by the elements they contain, so the impacts may be easiest to see though filters which isolate those lines.

A rapidly rotating shutter in front of the open lens makes it possible to photograph the meteor trail in short segments, from which the velocity and deceleration of a meteor can be computed.

Another process that the scientists investigated was lithopanspermia — the means by which life - bearing material on one planet can be ejected by meteor impacts and delivered to the surface of another planet.

In 1949, Bernard Lovell decided to construct a 250 - ft steerable telescope, which would enable him to examine cosmic rays, meteors, and the radio waves from the deepest reaches of the universe.

«We want to understand the fracture mechanics of meteors,» he said, which will serve to inform and test computer models of asteroids as they fall from the sky, which in turn are used to predict the strength of the explosion when they break up.

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

In addition, meteor impacts can create seismic waves, which InSight will try to detect.

During its approach, Rosetta has trained its navcams and OSIRIS camera at the comet, which sent back dramatic pictures of Churyumov — Gerasimenko; revealing it to be craggier and sharper edged than the asteroids and moons previously explored that had been worn down by billions of years of meteor impacts.

The trajectory of the Russia meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, which hours later made its flyby of Earth, making it a completely unrelated object.

The meteor, which was about one - third the diameter of asteroid 2012 DA14, was brighter than the Sun.

All the Celestolite products are put in shiny bottles, which is pretty perfect for a line that boasts meteor dust as a main ingredient.

It is set in the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda, where tribesmen have succeeded in harnessing the energies of the alien metal «vibranium,» which centuries before struck the planet during a meteor shower.

Written long before the sequels were published, Garland's script seizes on key ideas from the novel, but spins them in exciting new directions, using his source as a kind of leaping - off point (even the opening meteor detail is a bit of a departure, albeit one with rich other - worldly implications) from which he offers five tough women a chance to make first contact with this alien presence, and perhaps save the human race in the process.

Except for Will Smith in Hancock, and Samuel L. Jackson as Frozone in The Incredibles, and of course Halle Berry and Anthony Mackie in other Marvel Universe pictures, plus Wesley Snipes in Blade (if you want to press the point) and Robert Townsend in The Meteor Man (which should not be forgotten), there simply have been no black superheroes in the movies.

In reality, thanks to a meteor that landed there in prehistoric times, they are the world's only source of a metal called vibranium, which is extremely powerful, and which has been the basis for the world's most advanced technology.

In the summertime, the only films you could see in approximately 99 % of British cinemas were Moonraker, The Champ, Battlestar Galactica and Pete's Dragon; as the autumn set in, you could see only Alienand The Bitch (which movie symbolises with truly hideous perfection just how seedy and sleazy a pass British films have come to); currently, Star Trek and Meteor crowd»em in.

Also, because of that Meteor, the life of the plants and animals in Wakanda is affected and how can we forget the heart - shaped flower or herb which gives the Black Panther his superpowers.

Twenty years on and Slater is starring in a low budget horror named STRANDED, which revolves around four isolated astronauts on board a bio-dome space craft, who experience a ghostly intercession after a meteor storm, leading to paranoia, fear and death.