Sentences with phrase «really big asteroids»

So if we're safe from the really big asteroids, and the smaller, more frequent ones are likely to hit without major incident, what's the problem?

Not exact matches

Having several smaller explosions instead of one really big blast also reduces the chances of fragmenting the asteroid, which would make it more difficult to handle, Remo adds.

«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.»

Though it was a big hit back in 1979, Atari's Asteroids never really took off as a series.