Sentences with phrase «rock hurtling»

Imagine, if you will, that an astronomer discovered a large space rock hurtling to Earth.

And yet, for a mega-budget popcorn flick about a bunch of astronauts tasked with landing on a giant rock hurtling toward the planet?

While space rocks hurtling in from space threaten to deal modern life a mortal blow, meteorite impacts during Earth's early history may have played a pivotal role in kick - starting life on the planet.

It's difficult to map the exact trajectory of these giant rocks hurtling through space, as they are subject to various gravitational forces and buffeted by solar winds.

Not exact matches

Twelve of these things hurtling toward you, rocking in each other's wakes, look oddly majestic.

They had inside intelligence that a chunk of rock and metal, roughly 1,300 feet wide, was hurtling toward a possible collision with the most populated swath of Earth — Europe, India, and Southeast Asia.

After a brush with death last month, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is back on track for an encounter with a hurtling hunk of space rock.

Mining on an asteroid is fraught with difficulty due to the space rock's low gravity and the fact that it is hurtling through space.

eeehhh just an average girl floating along on this giant rock that's hurtling through space.

PALM SPRINGS, California — Between the blind corners, scattered rocks in the road, and palm fronds hurtling toward me at 60 mph, I should be sweating bullets.

And when the storm breaks, it is not only God who is on the rocks as the summer hurtles towards drama, tragedy, and a touch of farce.