Sentences with phrase «more by meteorite»

Duke's Apollo 16 mission returned with rocks that proved the moon's highlands had been shaped more by meteorite impacts than ancient volcanoes.

Here, Apollo 16 moonwalker John Young is collecting samples that would prove that these lunar highlands were shaped more by meteorites than by volcanism.

Not exact matches

Precious Metals the Result of Meteorite Bombardment, Rock Analysis Finds Sep. 9, 2011 — Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was formed.

Sep. 9, 2011 — Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was formed.

If two or more turn out to be habitable, then they could share life among them, either by tossing meteorites back and forth or — in the case of spacefaring civilizations — by deliberate space travel.

GRAIL's discoveries include the fact that the moon's crust is thinner and more fractured by meteorite impacts than scientists had suspected (SN Online: 12/6/12).

New work from a team of Carnegie cosmochemists published by Science Advances reports analyses of carbon - rich dust grains extracted from meteorites that show that these grains formed in the outflows from one or more type II supernovae more than two years after the progenitor stars exploded.

The same NASA researchers who made headlines in 1996 by announcing they had found what looked like fossil bacteria in a 4 - billion - year - old Martian meteorite have now discovered more evidence to back their controversial claim.

Or, more specifically, meteorites nicked off Vesta after the asteroid got whacked by another space rock.

By contrast, soil samples from the meteorite's fall site contained uracil with more carbon 12.

By coincidence, the meteorite fell in the same area that prospectors flocked to more than 150 years ago during California's gold rush — and it has attracted prospectors of its own.

The Cool Stars 18 Public Lecture is sponsored by The Barringer Crater Company, owners since 1903 of The Barringer Meteorite Crater more commonly known as Meteor Crater, Earth's first proven and best preserved impact site.

For most dating requirements it has been superseded by uranium — lead dating (U — Pb dating), but in certain specialized situations (such as dating meteorites and the age of the Earth) it is more important than U — Pb dating.

In the same topological vein but with a more explicitly scientific approach, Alyson Shotz's works try to visibilize phenomena like gravitational waves or quantum interweaving, while Agnieszka Kurant uses the surprising levitation of her meteorites to suggest the convergence of the artistic value of air (beginning with the iconic Paris Air bottled by Marcel Duchamp in 1919) and its property value in the current economy.

Let me refer you to William M. Connelly's blogpost of Nov 27, 2008 in which he stated: «And it is not true that The trajectory of current melting plummets through the graphs like a meteorite falling to earth — as we all know, there was marginally more ice this year than last — and if Monbiot, PIRC, or anyone from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, or indeed anyone else is stupid enough to believe that all the late - summer ice will be gone by 2013 (or within «within three to seven years»), I've got money that says otherwise: wan na bet?»

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the international team lays out its theory that the mass extinctions in North America were caused by one or more extraterrestrial objects — comets or meteorites — that exploded over the Earth or slammed into it, triggering catastrophic climate change.

Who was the «journalist» who asked if global warming meant it was more likely that the earth would be hit by a meteorite?

You are more likely to get hit by a meteorite than that a bitcoin address is compromised.