Sentences with phrase «place on an asteroid»

The game takes place on an asteroid.

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Obama has been battling some in Congress over his plans to use more private space companies, like Space X, for getting people to orbit with NASA concentrating on missions to send astronauts to new places, such as nearby asteroids.

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.

Water delivery via asteroids or comets is likely taking place in many other planetary systems, just as it happened on Earth, new research strongly suggests.

Gigantic coil magnets could be placed at strategic intervals on asteroids to bend and focus a particle beam in a circular path around the sun.

The relatively low speed — between 6 and 7 meters per second — suggests the process must have taken place over thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years before the asteroid was formed, when a gravitationally stable cloud of debris spun in the disk of material that would go on to build the solar system.

Space agencies might be able to place instruments on the asteroid's surface that could «tell us how potentially hazardous asteroids like Apophis are put together,» he says.

Bolden was grilled by subcommittee chairman Steve Palazzo (R - MS) and committee chairman Smith on why he was ignoring NAC's advice to (1) obtain an independent cost evaluation (ICE) of ARM prior to the Mission Concept Review (which just took place), and (2) modify it so that its primary objective is demonstration of high power solar electric propulsion rather than obtaining a sample of an asteroid, and to send the spacecraft to Mars and back rather than to an asteroid.

Dynamicists place less importance on small objects like Pluto, which don't significantly affect the movements of planets and asteroids, than they do on larger, more massive bodies.

The Space, Science and Competitiveness Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held two hearings on further actions Congress could take to assist companies seeking to engage in commercial space activities, especially non-traditional ventures such as placing habitats in Earth orbit or on the Moon, satellite servicing, or asteroid mining.

If asteroids and comets placed water on Mars recently, few evolutionists would expect that life evolved on Mars.

The game takes place in the future where people are now starting to live on asteroids (who would have thought) and space police (known as Rangers) are all over the place.

This module includes the following: * A check list for students, parents and teachers to ensure that students understand all the content by the time they reach the end of the module; * A list of important terms used in this section * Descriptions of different celestial bodies (planets, stars, moons, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites) * Opportunities for student engagement - place for students to write their thoughts / answers in spaces provided (individual as well as group work) * Simple explanations on the Earth's rotation, day and night, years and seasons, equinoxes and solstices.

Finally, on the Moon all structures have to be placed inside energy shields which prevent them from being destroyed by asteroids or terrorist bombardments.

Battle your friends or team up to take on CPU opponents Run over pilots in «Pilot Hunters» mode, battle for the most kills in «Ship Hunters,» or join forces in «Team Deathmatch» Arm your ship with offensive and defensive powerups including missiles, lasers, jousters and shields Dynamic arenas provide a host of hiding places and hazards — Avoid turrets, death beams, and black holes Mix up play with Game Modifiers (enable asteroids, starting power - ups, super dashes, and so much more)

Though the movie places a large emphasis on physical combat, this game is essentially Asteroids within a Michael Bay setting.

takes place on a ship getting slowly torn apart by an asteroid field.

After this the images below appeared and Ancel wrote that some of the places the team has been looking at include «Secret Pirate lairs on asteroids; spaceports; dormant volcanic craters; Black markets in city slums; Treacherous mining operations; Lush valleys with sacred temples; and Legendary treasures hidden in uncharted territories across space.»

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It's as if, in the future, if an asteroid were about to hit Earth, and if the world's only person with a telescope were giving a sincere speech to tell the world that it better send Bruce Willis or Clint Eastwood to destroy the asteroid, the Times would choose to place more of its focus on the person with the telescope than on the fact that Earth was about to be hit and that actions were necessary.

No, lack of evidence isn't evidence on the pro - comet / asteroid side either... However, a nanon - diamond - bearing layer in the right place is rather good evidence itself unless one can come up w / a way for gradual, common sedimentological process to concentrate nano - diamonds in certain layers by chance immediately at an extinction & abrupt climate - change horizon.