Sentences with phrase «of a small asteroid»
The funnellike shape of Lake Cheko, in contrast, resembles those of known impact craters of similar size — for instance, the so - called Odessa crater, which was created 25,000 years ago by the impact of a small asteroid in what is now Odessa, Tex..
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Recent observations have revealed that it is spherical, unlike the irregular shapes of smaller asteroids with less gravity.
In 1991 the spacecraft Galileo, which is bound for Jupiter, snapped the first close - up pictures of a small asteroid named Gaspra.
C: You could have one of the smaller asteroids come crashing into our planet, and that would be the end of civilization.
The destruction was the result of a small asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere over the Russia / Kazakhstan border, about 60 miles south of the city.
The Kuiper Belt is a region of small asteroid - like objects (KBOs) beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto.
Researchers now report that they can use this gamma ray radiation to infer the number of small asteroids in different groups of small solar system bodies.
It is of much interest to determine the nature of small asteroids produced in collisions with Ceres.