Sentences with phrase «of small debris»

«There is a possibility of the tether being severed by impacts of small debris objects or micrometeoroids,» says a JAXA spokesperson.

Not exact matches

The largest pieces of debris are the size of a small car.

Even though the Corps contractors have finished carting off residential debris in Coffey Park, they still need to remove a relatively small number of burned cars still cluttering lots, Allen said.

This vacuum cleaning robot removes dirt, dust, small debris, and pet hair on its own at the touch of a button.

You also get a polishing filter pad to remove the smallest debris, filter foam pads to get rid of larger dirt and debris, and Black Diamond Carbon to filter out discoloration and other impurities.

It has a swivel steering design and can pick up large debris with the nozzle but there's still the 2 amp motor that can get even small particles of dust.

This substance may originally have been ejected from the small, dark outer moons of Saturn during impacts with space debris.

Previous studies have documented the impact of plastic debris on more than 660 marine species — from the smallest of zooplankton to the largest whales, including fish destined for the seafood market — but none have quantified the worldwide amount entering the ocean from land.

The scientists have been looking at extremely small pieces of debris, known as micro-particles, which were released into the environment during the initial disaster in 2011.

«We used to think most of the debris consists of small fragments, but this new analysis shines a new light on the scope of the debris.»

Doktorksi gained permission to roam around the landfill and made plaster casts of small sections of the debris.

The only way to limit that, he says, is to improve the tracking of trajectories for small, but potentially spacecraft - killing debris.

In southern Ecuador, a new species dubbed the Limon harlequin frog (Atelopus sp.) was found in a small section of stream — but when an international team traveled there to document the frog, they found debris spewing into the stream from the construction of a new road.

The net is fitted with sensors that look for light reflecting from small pieces of debris and automatically aligns itself so that it can attract the material.

Because of how heat transfers, only piles larger than this critical size will ignite, meaning rearranging debris into smaller piles could prevent fires from breaking out.

According to a competing theory, toward the end of its formation Mars suffered a giant collision with a protoplanet: but why did the debris from such an impact create two small satellites instead of one enormous moon, like the Earth's?

Each created a shower of particle debris that physicists can scour for traces of the Higgs, which if it exists would have emerged in a small fraction of collisions and then immediately decayed away into other particles.

Prior to that time, trash was dumped in unstructured landfills — Jambeck has vivid memories of growing up in rural Minnesota, dropping her family's garbage off at a small dump and watching bears wander through furniture, tires and debris as they looked for food.

An impact has long been suspected for the birth of Charon, the largest Plutonian moon, but Canup ran impact simulations to show that Nix and Hydra, two much smaller satellites discovered in 2005, may be debris from the same collision.

The gravitational interactions created in the outer disk by this massive star apparently acted as a catalyst for the gathering of debris to form other smaller, more distant moons.

Experiments conducted high in the skies over New Mexico suggest that balloon - borne sensors could be useful in detecting the infrasound signals generated by small, extraterrestrial debris entering Earth's atmosphere, according to a report at the 2017 Seismological Society of America's (SSA) Annual Meeting.

It consists of derelict satellites, rocket bodies and parts, and small fragments produced by collisions between debris.

Scientists want to study the behaviors of exocomets, which represent the link between fully formed planets and the debris disks, but individual comets around alien suns are too dark and small to be observed directly.

And each of the other oceans has its own, albeit smaller, floating patches of debris.

The United States now tracks more than 10,000 pieces of debris four inches wide or larger, but tens of millions of smaller fragments are also whizzing through space at speeds that can exceed 17,000 miles per hour, says Mark Matney of NASA's Orbital Debris Prdebris four inches wide or larger, but tens of millions of smaller fragments are also whizzing through space at speeds that can exceed 17,000 miles per hour, says Mark Matney of NASA's Orbital Debris PrDebris Program.

Team leader Mauri Valtonen of the University of Turku in Finland used equations derived from Einstein's theory of general relativity to show that the pulses could be caused by a small, orbiting black hole plunging into the debris disk around the larger one, situated at one end of the orbital ellipse.

Rather than random occurrences, many large airbursts might result from collisions between Earth and streams of debris associated with small asteroids or comets.

One possibility is that a slow - motion collision with a smaller asteroid or comet once blasted debris into orbit, and the gravitational pull of the largest bits of debris have shepherded the smaller bits into a sharply defined ring.

Initially the crash left behind some 1,500 pieces of wreckage bigger than four inches in diameter, along with hundreds of thousands of smaller fragments, estimates Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist of the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Independent marine debris researcher Seba Sheavly, who coordinated the study, hopes that news of these findings might spur small but important changes in consumer behavior.

Researchers are currently tracking an estimated 22,000 artificial objects that are orbiting Earth, from small bits of debris to large satellites.

Plastic debris degrades into ever - smaller pieces, which means that a wider range of organisms can ingest this material, and particles of microplastic are now the most abundant form of solid - waste pollution on our planet.

Dr Beaman said a debris field of large blocks, or knolls, and numerous smaller blocks, lies scattered over 30 kilometres from the main landslide remains, into the Queensland Trough, to a depth of 1350 metres.

The frozen bodies populating the solar system's Kuiper Belt, a band of debris outside the orbit of Neptune, may be much smaller than astronomers thought.

The aftermath of the neutron star collision detected in August included the gravitational waves spotted by LIGO and VIRGO (pale arcs); a near - light - speed jet that produced gamma rays (magenta); expanding debris from a kilonova — an explosion similar to a supernova, but smaller — that produced ultraviolet (violet), optical and infrared (blue - white to red) emission; and X-rays (blue).

Using modelling, Sébastien Charnoz and Ryuki Hyodo at the Paris Institute of Earth Physics found that if such a smash - up left behind big chunks of debris, these would form a new moon so fast that smaller fragments couldn't drift inwards to form rings (arXiv.org/abs/1705.07554).

Independent tests undertaken in late February by two US aerospace firms — Lockheed Martin and Raytheon — showed that a new ground - based radar technology can detect those small bits of orbital debris.

Now, new research in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that an ancient collision could have sent a ring of debris containing at least 100 small moons into orbit around the Red Planet, which eventually coalesced into Phobos and Deimos — Mars's two current moons.

An assemblage of small hills in the region also appears to be debris left behind by slowly flowing glacial ice.

To make smaller, simpler microrobots, researchers at Drexel University have developed a fabrication method which utilizes the minimum geometric requirements for fluid motion — consisting of just two conjoined microparticles coated with bits of magnetic debris.

«In addition to the new impact craters and starburst debris patterns, we observed a surprising number of small surface changes which we call splotches,» Speyerer said.

But impacts also throw small amounts of debris in hyper - velocity jets at speeds of 16 kilometers (10 miles) per second.

For example, a large impact would create an enormous disk of debris, and while this would feed the creation of more massive moons, smaller bodies would likely be unable to coalesce.

(4) Does the «typical» circumstellar disk states of primary star + Kuiper Belt Star show evidence for material from each of the different kinds of small outer solar system bodies (Comets, Centaurs, KBOs) like the active comet debris in HR4796A and the icy KBO debris in Fomalhaut and HD 32297?

What was left was a black hole surrounded by a small clump of ionized gas, debris and dust just 3,000 light - years across.

The onset and progression of disease in inherited ALS is determined by the motor neurons and microglia, small immune cells in the spinal cord, which migrate through nerve tissue and remove damaged cells and debris.

The present work is a follow - up to a 2010 study, led by Dr. David Martínez - Delgado (University of Heidelberg), which used small robotic telescopes to image eight isolated spiral galaxies, and found the signs of mergers — shells, clouds and arcs of tidal debris — in six of them.

Without atmospheres to slow and stop tiny impacts, the surfaces of these small worlds are repeatedly sand - blasted by all manner of space debris.

Initial reports were of small bits of debris spread in a wide area in Texas.

From ground - based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun - like stars in a nearby galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appear as small, shapeless dots of light.