Sentences with phrase «second asteroid»

This was the second asteroid to be visited by spacecraft.

At the same time, Japan's space agency will be working with a mission called Hayabusa2, their second asteroid sample retrieval mission.

Eventually, they landed on a second asteroid, where they were buried by other rock — until that asteroid too shed them in the form of the meteorites that carried them to Earth.

But recently, scientists have spotted asteroids behaving and dying in unexpected ways: Some have tails, some break apart into chunks and others disintegrate into smears of dust, with no obvious second asteroid in sight.

Not exact matches

Most contemporary NT scholars do not believe in the Second Coming so apparently there is no concern about JC coming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors / rapture.

Most contemporary NT exegetes do not believe in the Second Coming so apparently there is no concern about JC coming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors / rapture.

Conclusion from rigorous historic testing of the scriptures: There will be no Second Coming so JC is not coming back on an asteroid or cloud of raptors or by any other transportation express..

Second Life: NASA snapped another million images over the next four months, turning up more than 33,000 new asteroids.

The object's incoming motion — 25.5 kilometers per second — was so extreme that astronomers believe it is not the kind of asteroid or comet typically seen inside the solar system.

Dawn began orbiting Ceres in 2015, following its exploration of Vesta, the asteroid belt's second largest body.

It's not much — just 6 kilograms per second — but there's water vapor coming off two regions of Ceres, the solar system's largest asteroid.

Those meteorites were a gift from Vesta, the second largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

A second series, beginning later this year, will tackle space science, from the future of space travel to the mystery of» Oumuamua, the first confirmed interstellar asteroid.

Vesta, the brightest asteroid in our solar system, is the second - largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The first extinction pulse has been tied to massive volcanic eruptions in India, the second to the impact of an asteroid or comet on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

In a second study, researchers from the Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS / Aix - Marseille Université) ruled out the possibility of a capture on the grounds of statistical arguments based on the compositional diversity of the asteroid belt.

Here's how we know: astronomers can estimate how many asteroids of a given size are out there, even if we haven't seen them all, by looking at the rate of re-detection, or how often we see the same asteroid a second time.

The asteroid, which is probably no more than 400 meters across, zoomed into the solar system at 25.5 kilometers per second and is now fleeing at 44 km / s.

Conventional spacecraft would need 2.5 tons of fuel to reach Vesta; Dawn carried just 937 pounds of xenon at launch, and it still has enough to go on a 900 - million - mile loop beyond Vesta to its second target, the asteroid Ceres.

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.

The asteroid belt's second - most - massive body has had quite a complicated life.

A group of impact modelers argued at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference that the object that crashed into asteroid Vesta — the asteroid belt's second - most - massive body — and reshaped its geology was eight times as massive as previously thought.

That's up to 9 kilometers per second slower than the average for bigger objects that have hit Earth over its history, says space scientist and asteroid specialist William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Even before astronomers pointed their telescopes at a dim star over Chile last June, they knew it would darken for a few seconds as an asteroid passed in front of it.

The winning scenario: a 400 - foot - wide stony asteroid that slammed into the air at 12 miles a second and exploded.

It will be only the second sample ever returned from a primitive, carbon - rich asteroid — and by far, the largest.

In a relentless campaign of 30 - second views, the telescope will open a movie - like window on heavenly bodies that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovas, hazardous asteroids, and objects in the distant Kuiper belt.

Seconds later, after one asteroid hit too many, your spaceship explodes.

In October of 1990 a very small asteroid struck the Pacific Ocean with a blast about the size of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima, killing roughly thousands of people in seconds.

On a second pass through the asteroid belt, Galileo discovered a miniature moon orbiting asteroid Ida.

The second most massive asteroid in the solar system, Vesta started off as a protoplanet.

The spacecraft has already delivered more than 30,000 images and many insights about Vesta, the second most massive body in the asteroid belt.

Dawn spent nearly 14 months orbiting Vesta, the second most massive object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, from 2011 to 2012.

The following concerns Vesta, the second - most - massive asteroid, whose mean diameter is 326 miles (525 kilometers).

On July 14, 2011, NASA announced that its Dawn spacecraft should be captured by Vesta's gravity and into its orbit around 1 AM EDT, on Saturday, July 16, 2011 (10 PM PDT, Friday, July 15th), at a distance of approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) from the Solar System's second largest, Main - Belt asteroid.

Vesta is the second largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt (more).

Not quite round, Vesta's diameter is roughly 330 miles (530 kilometers) across, making it the second largest planetary body in the Main Asteroid Belt after Ceres.

Pixar's second release of the year imagines 1) Earth never hit by a big, bad asteroid, 2) dinosaurs that never went extinct as a result, and 3) a time when their human neighbors weren't yet paving and building on every available inch of the landscape.

But running a close second is Armageddon, Michael Bay's much - lambasted asteroid vs. oil drillers movie that is reportedly shown to NASA trainees for them to see how many things they can find wrong with it.

The game's second boss is a giant flaming boulder that splits into two, smaller boulders every time its health is depleted, until the environment is rippling with fiery ball bearings - which brings Asteroids to mind.

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is the second game from Asteroid Base, a team spawned in Toronto's game jam scene comprised of Matt Hammill (creator of the award - winning Gesundheit!

I also tried out some Asteroids since that's what got me the free ticket to the exhibition;D This was the second time ever that I had played on an Asteroids arcade!

Every second level you \'ll race to harvest asteroids before the blast wave reaches you from the planet you just blew up!

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In the case of both asteroid impact prevention and reduction of CO2 emissions, there are vast positive ancillary effects: leaps in scientific knowledge in the first, cleaning up the ecosphere in the second.

There's probably a sequence where the clock is ticking... time's running out... the hero only has seconds to stop the bomb or the rocket launch or the asteroid.