Sentences with phrase «of killer asteroids»

One NASA study suggested the risk of killer asteroids and killer comets to be about equal.

Not exact matches

NASA is now quite sure that no Earth - killer asteroids are on a near - term collision course, but 50 - meter asteroids (large enough to flatten a city) strike every few hundred years, and almost all of them are uncharted.

People may neglect the material world — with its myriad of woes ranging from Mideast strife to global warming to killer asteroids — for an existence that embraces the allure of simulacra.

Next month the only telescope scanning the southern hemisphere sky for dangerous space rocks will shut down for lack of money (see «Vital eye for killer asteroids could shut imminently «-RRB-.

Getting 50 percent of the city killers leaves plenty behind, and even though it should find hundreds of thousands of Chelyabinsk - scale asteroids, its launch is still years away.

So for want of $ 1 million in funding, we won't be able to spot killer asteroids from the southern hemisphere...

Both Bralower and Gulick pointed to a recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters — they are listed as participants or third - party scientists — which contends that the asteroid released killer amounts not of soot, but of gas.

However, the geological changes wrought by the killer asteroid remains in the form of sinkholes, or cenotes, that formed around the impact crater.

We are probably more at risk of being hit by killer cosmic particles, a fracture of the space time continuum, or an asteroid.