Sentences with phrase «other asteroids»

We also don't know what other asteroid systems look like.
Active asteroids have stable orbits between Mars and Jupiter like other asteroids.
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.
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.
«The orbit of the moon is elliptical and tilted relative to the spin of Hektor, which is very different from other asteroids with satellites seen in the main - belt,» said Matija Cuk, coauthor and scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute.
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.
Unlike most other asteroids, which are fragments of once larger bodies, Vesta is thought to have survived as a protoplanet since its formation at the beginning of the solar system (see the Perspective by Binzel, published online 20 September).
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.
For there even to be a rib women talking to a snake, you had to have them evolve from micro-bacteria produced from colliding asteroids that were created from other (older) colliding asteroids, created from other asteroids etc.....
The first evidence of organic material on Ceres opens the door to the possibility that other asteroids harbour precursors to primitive life
Like so many other asteroids, Ida 243 is irregularly shaped and loosely composed of rubble.
University of Central Florida astronomer Humberto Campins, a co-author of one of the studies, says other asteroids may harbor ice as well.
«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.
Such an intriguing metallic planetary body has not been studied before by any spacecraft; other asteroids visited have been of the rocky variety.
(There are other asteroid groups in the inner solar system.)
Like other asteroids, Eros is believed to be a chunk of primordial rubble left over from the formation of the Solar System.
Vesta and most other asteroids, the theory goes, accreted quickly and accumulated a lot of aluminum 26 that had not yet decayed.
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's also unlike any other asteroid we've seen before.
As you may or may not know, Neptune was found because of the affects it had on Uranus and other asteroids and comets that we charted their trajectory we found they were doing weird things around a certain point in space that could be from a large object.
In the early 1970s researchers discovered that Vesta's composition is unlike that of any other asteroid: it is made of basalt.
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 other asteroids Wiggins discovered (the first one with his then wife) are Elko and Timerskine in 1999, Laurelanmaurer in 2007 and Nevaruth in 2008.
NASA currently spends around $ 40 million annually on asteroid surveys and other asteroid - related activities, and has instructions from US Congress to find all space rocks above 140 metres by 2020.
Other asteroids like Bennu may have seeded the early, prebiotic Earth with this material, contributing to the primordial soup from which life eventually emerged.
No other asteroid is visible to the unaided eye, not even Ceres, which is nearly twice as wide.
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.
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.
«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.»
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