Sentences with phrase «other asteroid»

The cause of the heating can not be long - lived radioisotopes; given the primordial concentrations of the isotopes and the expected rate of heat loss, calculations show that the radioactive decay could not have melted Vesta or any other asteroid.

opes and the expected rate of heat loss, calculations show that the radioactive decay could not have melted Vesta or any other asteroid.

(There are other asteroid groups in the inner solar system.)

In the early 1970s researchers discovered that Vesta's composition is unlike that of any other asteroid: it is made of basalt.

It's also unlike any other asteroid we've seen before.

Vesta and most other asteroids, the theory goes, accreted quickly and accumulated a lot of aluminum 26 that had not yet decayed.

The orbit calculations revealed beyond any doubt that this body did not originate from inside the Solar System, like all other asteroids or comets ever observed, but instead had come from interstellar space.

The first evidence of organic material on Ceres opens the door to the possibility that other asteroids harbour precursors to primitive life

The other asteroids Wiggins discovered (the first one with his then wife) are Elko and Timerskine in 1999, Laurelanmaurer in 2007 and Nevaruth in 2008.

However, unlike other asteroids, they sometimes have the appearance of comets, when dust or gas is ejected from their surfaces to create a sporadic tail effect.

Active asteroids have stable orbits between Mars and Jupiter like other asteroids.

Other asteroids like Bennu may have seeded the early, prebiotic Earth with this material, contributing to the primordial soup from which life eventually emerged.

You've done these vulcanoid surveys and studies of other asteroids, meteors, and comets from the backseat of a high - performance aircraft, like a WB - 57 or a F / A -18 Hornet fighter jet.

Vesta researchers have long focused on certain meteorites: rocks that fell to Earth after being blasted off Vesta when other asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter hit the 525 - kilometer - diameter Vesta.

The meteorites» mineralogical composition showed that, like Earth and the other rocky planets but unlike almost all other asteroids, the newly formed Vesta melted and stratified into a rocky crust, a mantle, and an iron.

Like so many other asteroids, Ida 243 is irregularly shaped and loosely composed of rubble.

The rocky body — the largest yet to get a close flyby — seems to have been just large enough to avoid being reduced to a flying pile of rubble by eons of collisions with other asteroids.

«Each faint asteroid must be captured in many separate exposures for computers to distinguish it from numerous other asteroids and then piece together its orbit,» he explains.

For break - up to occur, P / 2013 R3 must have a weak, fractured interior, probably the result of numerous ancient and non-destructive collisions with other asteroids.

It was discovered in 2008 by longtime Utah astronomy educator Patrick Wiggins, who also has discovered four other asteroids and an exploding star, or supernova.

Such an intriguing metallic planetary body has not been studied before by any spacecraft; other asteroids visited have been of the rocky variety.

«Ceres is so big compared to all the other asteroids that it's really different,» said Andrew Rivkin, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «It's sort of the penultimate step before a planet.»

Not exact matches

Some researchers also think it may be possible to compare the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other chemicals in a plume to «default» levels seen in asteroids, which were formed at the dawn of the solar system — and ask if life is manipulating the chemistry there, or at least did so in the past.

(Other startups, like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, are trying to achieve similar ends by landing on asteroids.)

The Moon and nearby asteroids contain hydrogen, carbon, silicon, metals, and other materials necessary for industry.

Gemini, the ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, the Canada France Hawaii Telescope, the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, and other observatories trained their eyes on the asteroid.

No other comet or asteroid in the solar system varies so widely in brightness.

Lurking between Mars and Jupiter is the largest asteroid in the solar system: a dwarf planet called Ceres, which has ice volcanoes, salt deposits, and other features that suggest it's hiding an ocean of salt water.

The company says some ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) are keeping an eye on the progress of new asteroid mining ventures as startups seek to tap near - earth bodies for valuable metals and other elements.

The moon, peppered with the impacts of asteroids over the eons, should also possess dollops of platinum and other precious metals.

Other earlier - stage deals include flying cars, lunar drones and asteroid mining, while longer - standing investments like Sogou (search) and China Literature (e-publishing) have gone public over the past month.

Many near - Earth asteroids are said to contain trillions of dollars» worth of precious metals and other minerals.

The few objects (moons, asteroids or comets) doing that can be explained rather well by gravitational disruption of orbits under close encounters with other objects, collisions and captures.

When I think of «punishment» I am thinking of floods, earthquakes, famines, hurricanes, asteroids, pestilence, and other natural disasters.

Revelations is clearly very accurate, clearly agreeing with moden science computer models regarding global warming predictions, what will happen when a large asteroid strikes (note the word «when») and many other things unknown to science prior to the 21st Century.

Where did the asteroids come from that supposedly banged into each other.

And on and on — according to many experts, the extinction spasm caused by climate change and other environmental degradation in this century will equal or surpass those caused by crashing asteroids in geological times.

Conclusion from rigorous historic testing of the scriptures: There will be no Second Coming so JC is not coming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors or by any other transportation express..

It is certain that the world will end sometime, either by our sun dying or the earth being struck by an asteroid or the moon leaving earth orbit or dozens of other possible catastrophies.

[1] Most of the collapsing mass collected in the centre, forming the Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed.»

Standing beside each other, these bottles would stretch for over six miles — each full to the brim with sand, each grain a solar system (probably) on average as big and complex as ours, resplendent with planets, moons, asteroids and, in some cases, perhaps life.

Ever since Isac learnt how to walk and talk, he and his sister have become like two asteroids, constantly spinning around each other with a kind of magnetic force keeping them both together and apart.

And then I try envisioning what it will be like when another, smaller asteroid enters their orbits and takes part in that spinning dance around each other.

You may wish that we had any matchup other than Patriots - Eagles (again) or that that asteroid would hit Earth before we're subjected to a smug - looking Robert Kraft clutching another Lombardi Trophy.

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.

Burning through the atmosphere at 45,000 mph, the asteroid's leading edge hit the Gulf of Mexico while its other end was still higher than a cruising 747.

If Gaidos and his team are right, further collisions could have knocked free other objects towards our solar system, which means we may see some of this asteroid's cousins.

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

It also validates the concept of panspermia, the idea that life might have hopscotched through our solar system — or others — by hitching a ride on asteroids or comets.

The first concept would fully capture a very small asteroid in free space and the other would retrieve a boulder off of a much larger asteroid.