Sentences with phrase «of asteroids»

They couldn't survive the hot aftermath of asteroid impacts.

Two independent teams have found what may be the first direct evidence of water ice on the surface of an asteroid.

Now this story will become reality in the future, how to change orbit of asteroid is being researched.

Or maybe not and I die of an asteroid strike because I didn't know to leave town sooner.

These were bigger than I usually like but again, that beet was the size of an asteroid.

It would be dangerous to ignore the potential of an asteroid collision.

We did it because the contingency — the unlikely event of the asteroid hit — got rid of the competition.

The aftermath of the asteroid crash created an enormous evolutionary void, providing an opportunity for the marine fish that survived it to greatly diversify.

The dark circle shows the irregular shape of the asteroid.

The team is already using a preliminary shape model, produced from radar observations of the asteroid.

The mass extinction of the dinosaurs was down to the location of the asteroid's impact and the kind of rocks it landed on.

This makes sense, given that a crater can be 10 times the diameter of the asteroid that made it.

In the latest images, the orientation reveal more of the asteroid's equator, providing a clearer picture of that region.

«The chance of an asteroid hitting the planet is one in a hundred million, so we don't worry about that,» he says.

A flare is produced and eventually the remains of the asteroid are swallowed by the black hole.

The collage of images also shows the rapid motion of the asteroid's moon relative to its companion.

That's just one potential solution to the problem of an asteroid collision.

The astronomers concluded there were no excess infrared emissions and therefore no sign of an asteroid belt collision, a giant impact on a planet or a dusty cloud of rock and debris.

Every so often we have emergency drills — because of asteroid hits, for example — and the fog comes pouring into the classroom.

The distribution of the flow types varies with latitude — and the researchers think this means different surface layers of the asteroid contain different amounts of ice.

With only a few observations to feed into their calculations, the early estimates by scientists of an asteroid's future orbit have huge uncertainties.

The sight of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star and forming a glowing debris ring has been captured in an image for the first time.

And that may explain the phenomenon of asteroid pairs.

Those asteroid movies are scary, but there are no verified instances of an asteroid strike killing any humans, are there?

I think with the exception of asteroid impacts and super volcanic events this is not true.

He says the evidence points to a small impact event of an asteroid or comet, maybe a body a couple kilometers across.

Our primary assignment is to track the orbit of the asteroid.

Professor Vasile said: «There are several hundreds of thousands of asteroids in space.

Two of the four detected so far are part of the same family of asteroids as 24 Themis, which is the family's largest member.

NASA states that there have been thousands of these types of asteroids found in our solar system, including Earth's only known Trojan asteroid, 2010 TK7.

This technique uses the seemingly chaotic radar pattern reflected by the uneven surface of an asteroid as it sweeps across the surface of the Earth to determine how fast and in what direction it's tumbling.

Enjoy a futuristic take on classic arcade action as you blast your way through a seemingly endless field of asteroids with loads of awesome power - ups, ship upgrades and achievements.

This is a lesson taken to heart by NASA's OSIRIS - REx mission, which launches in 2016 to return pristine samples of asteroid Bennu in 2023.

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.

Not shown in the above illustrations are the numerous smaller bodies that inhabit the solar system: the satellites of the planets; the large number of asteroids (small rocky bodies) orbiting the Sun, mostly between Mars and Jupiter but also elsewhere; the comets (small icy bodies) which come and go from the inner parts of the solar system in highly elongated orbits and at random orientations to the ecliptic; and the many small icy bodies beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt.

It appears similar to a group of asteroids known as carbonaceous chondrites.

The round - body definition provides planetary scientists with a useful guide to selecting objects in the solar system that could shed light on processes here on Earth, says Sykes, who is part of the science team for NASA's Dawn mission to dwarf planet Ceres and Vesta, the two largest members of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Whether their results can also apply to bright asteroids or dark asteroids found in other regions of the asteroid belt remains to be seen.

999 years following the events of The UWN Superfluous» mission to save the earth the pieces of the asteroid in which the fabled ship destroyed crashed into Earth causing massive destruction and loss of life.

The confusion began in 1992 with the discovery of the Kuiper belt, a long - theorized second zone of asteroids on the edge of the solar system.

In 1992 he was awarded the Merlin Medal and later was one of the very first students of the Open University to receive a Doctorate of Philosophy, his thesis being on the subject of shape studies of asteroids and their orbital evolution.

The proposed Phobos - Deimos forming impactor would be between the size of the asteroid Vesta, which has a diameter of 326 miles, and the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 587 miles wide.

Scientists at the EPFL have now examined a piece of an asteroid known as 2008 TC3 and found diamonds that could only have come from a large, long - lost planet that roamed our neighborhood billions of years ago.

The total mass of the Asteroid belt is estimated to be 3.0 to 3.6 × 1021 kilograms, which is 4 percent of the Earth's Moon.