Sentences with phrase «pelted earth»

In trying to understand the formation of the early Earth, some researchers have suggested that the planet was dry and inhospitable to life until icy comets pelted Earth and deposited water on the surface.

He says he can find no evidence to support the idea, suggested by some geologists, that it might have come from comets or other bodies which pelted the Earth and Moon between 4.6 billion and 3.8 billion years ago.

PUMMELED PLANET Colossal rocks pelted Earth during the planet's early years, annihilating any emerging life and creating magma - gushing gashes (red), as seen in an illustration.

Up to 84,000 meteorites pelt Earth each year.

A particle accelerator mishap is improbable since nature regularly pelts Earth with cosmic rays more energetic than the particles in the Large Hadron Collider.

Not exact matches

Earth is constantly being pelted with debris from outer space.

«So once you had an Earth - size planet, it was constantly being pelted by the last few percent of this material that was still out there.

But reconnection opens rifts in Earth's magnetic defenses, allowing solar particles to pelt the planet.

From that perch, high above the bulk of Earth's atmosphere, the box - shaped instrument was pelted by heavy atomic nuclei from deep space, leaving bread - crumb trails of light in its three sets of detectors.

Life appeared on Earth around 4 billion years ago, about the same time that the planet was being pelted with large meteorites — an event called the Late Heavy Bombardment.

They could burn my flag or pelt me with stones, but if there were taxidermied kittens to be had then I would go and bring them back to this, the greatest country on earth.»

It would be the first time in the history of earth that a sentient species knowingly and willingly charged full pelt towards its own destruction, if Anthony Watts had his way.