Sentences with phrase «shed by comet»
A meteor shower occurs when a planet passes through a swath of debris shed by a comet, or sometimes an asteroid.
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A yearly meteor shower arises when particles shed by a comet spread into a long trail, drifting along the comet's entire orbital path around the sun.
Bits and pieces shed by this comet litter its orbit and bombard the Earth's upper atmosphere at 110,000 miles per hour (177,000 km / h).
Not exact matches
A dynamic simulation of that process, carried out by A'Hearn's colleague Kevin Walsh of Southwest Research Institute, sheds light on many long - standing puzzles about the solar system: not only where the Oort Cloud comets come from, but also why Mars is so small and airless com - pared with Earth.
The debris was probably shed by a large, ancient comet that disintegrated to create the Taurid stream, as well as an existing comet called 2P / Encke.
Recent modeling along with previously published results from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, a mission that observed Mercury from 2011 to 2015 — has shed new light on how certain types of comets influence the lopsided bombardment of Mercury's surface by tiny dust particles called micrometeoroids.