Sentences with phrase «of the smaller asteroids come»

C: You could have one of the smaller asteroids come crashing into our planet, and that would be the end of civilization.

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But the researchers discovered an oddity that made them question whether the gems came from an asteroid at all: The diamonds had grown around even smaller crystals of iron and sulfur, which normally would repel each other like oil and water, says EPFL physicist Cécile Hébert.

2016 TB57 is a rather small asteroid — about 50 to 115 feet (16 to 36 meters) in size — that will come closest to Earth on Oct. 31 at just beyond five times the distance of the moon.

The report, which came out in January and with which Boslough otherwise fully agrees, reveals that the scientific inventory of Earth - threatening space objects (asteroids and comets), especially the smaller ones that are most likely to impact our planet, is far from complete and unlikely to improve significantly without a greatly increased funds for NEO search programs.