Sentences with phrase «of space rocks»

He has tested many varieties of space rocks in his research.

A chunk of space rock may have been forged inside a long - lost planet from the early solar system.

Not even the crushing impact of the space rock.

A fragment of the space rock splits open underwater, revealing... you, a fully formed single - celled organism!

Analysis of the Almahata Sitta meteorite reveals that it is an achondrite, a rare type of space rock that comes from celestial bodies that are large enough to generate internal heat early in their history so as to produce metallic cores surrounded by rock.

By analyzing the compositions of these space rocks, researchers are piecing together the 4.57 - billion - year history of our solar system.

Based on previous surveys, Elvis estimates that 4 per cent of space rocks are the right type to contain platinum and similarly valuable metals.

The likelihood that one of these space rocks poses a real threat to human lives may be low — researchers at Prince - ton University have placed 1 - in - 5,000 odds on an asteroid two - thirds of a mile across smacking into Earth sometime in the next century (for comparison, the risk that you will be struck by lightning in your lifetime is about 1 in 3,000)-- but the stakes are high.

The fly - by offered astronomers a chance to take detailed images of the space rock, and the first radar glimpse revealed that 1998 QE2 has its own small moon.

Under a polarizing light microscope, chondrules — melted bits of silicate - rich material in meteorites — turn slices of the space rocks into bedazzling art

The spacecraft has been chasing the comet for 10 years, and on August 6, the European Space Agency (ESA) released detailed images and data showing that the probe had come within 100 kilometers of the space rock and is ready to enter into orbit around it.

MOST moons are either round and smooth, or lumpy pieces of space rock.

After a brush with death last month, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is back on track for an encounter with a hurtling hunk of space rock.

This story follows the trek of a space rock from its discovery in an ice field to a lab, where researchers probe the rock's origins (perhaps some asteroid or the moon) and then send bits of the meteorite to a library.

More than 4.5 billion years ago, bits of space rock vaporized upon impact with our still - forming planet, rose up in plumes of rock and iron, and then fell back down as rain.

Scientists, dealers, collectors and nomadic tribesmen have formed a surprising alliance that's advancing the study of space rocks — and making, for some, a tidy profit.

Take a trip to 25143 Itokawa, a peanut - shaped asteroid that kisses the orbit of Mars, and you might be surprised by what you see: hundreds of large, rounded boulders that dot the surface of the space rock.

It is thought that a gravitational reshuffling of the planets some 4 billion years ago shook up distant belts of space rocks and sent many of them hurtling towards the sun.

European experts have spotted one of the faintest asteroids ever found — a chunk of space rock thought to be about 100 m in diameter beyond the orbit of Mars.

However, due to the age gap between NWA 7635 and the rest of the space rocks, they determined that there had to have been «a steady plume of magma» from «one location on the surface of Mars» for a period of at least 2 billion years, if not longer.

The suggestion that Jupiter held the different groups of space rocks apart is «a little more speculative, but I buy it,» she adds.

The Earth is constantly plowing into debris, collecting thousands of tons of space rock a year; so although you can not see them, meteor streaks happen during the day, too.

Unless they're «trojans,» most of these space rocks fly in a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

And then there's the stupendous score by Stephen Moore (who is one half of the space rock duo known as Zombi), and a handful of atmospheric tracks from the likes of The Sisters of Mercy, Stevie B., and Survive which make for delectable accompaniment to Robby Baumgartner's 80's inspired look.

Millions of years in the making, Rio Secreto lets you appreciate natural wonders forged by Mother Earth — and a wayward mountain of space rock.

Then of course there's the selling of space rocks, which sounds like an occupation unto itself when you factor in the transport logistics necessary to sell high, not to mention possible speculation if you opt to purchase storage facilities and wait for the market to trend in your favor.

Army units found three meteorite debris impact sites, two of which are in an area near Chebarkul Lake, west of Chelyabinsk, so fragments of space rock might be recovered.

The meteorite is an achondrite, a relatively rare type of space rock that comes from a planet or big asteroid — something large that generated enough internal heat early in its history to melt partially, producing a metallic core surrounded by rock.

If we can't even begin to survive the resourse impact of 9 Billion people, why worry about the impact of space rocks?

«Oumuamua shares a red - tinted light profile akin to distant Kuiper Belt Objects in our own solar system, which may be a hint about how prolonged exposure to deep space alters the composition of space rocks.

NASA dispatched scientists to the site, and days later they returned with 13 fragments of the space rock.