Sentences with phrase «slam into»

But the debris that it spewed would quickly slam into the gas surrounding it and create a powerful shock wave.

The fast - moving electrons in the plasma slam into these molecules, producing highly reactive species such as hydroxyl and nitric - oxide molecules.

Zeta Oph, which is about 20 times as massive as Earth's sun, has supersonic winds that slam into the material in front of it.

'' #skittles got stuck in my mouth while I was driving, forced me to slam into orphanage, killing hundreds.

CMEs can spark powerful geomagnetic storms if they slam into Earth's magnetic field.

New supercomputer simulations predict that, in 3 billion to 4 billion years, there is a slight chance that Venus or Mars will slam into our planet thanks to the subtle gravitational interactions between Jupiter and Mercury.

Satellite images can help determine whether objects that slam into Earth have a friend following close behind

With the gravity - mapping mission now over, if all goes according to schedule, the probes» Thelma - and - Louise moment will occur at approximately 5:28 p.m. EST on Monday, 17 December, when the craft slam into a 2 - kilometer - tall mountain in the northern polar regions of the moon, NASA announced in a press conference today.

Morbidelli points out that far more asteroids slam into Earth than do comets.

When those electrons slam into molecules in the air, they produce gamma rays (pink, center) and lengthen the channel (gold, center) through which the visible flash of lightning (yellow, right) travels.

If any of our descendants escape that catastrophe, they will be able to see another, far greater one looming overhead: the Andromeda galaxy, which just might slam into the Milky Way some 6 billion years from now, to who knows what effect.

Answers may come from Deep Impact, a projectile that will slam into Comet Tempel 1 in July 2005, when a flyby spacecraft will study material beneath its surface.

The main argument in these reviews has been that collisions of similar energies happen daily in the upper atmosphere as cosmic rays slam into atoms in the air and, so far, Earth has survived unscathed.

A cosmic ray — usually a proton, but sometimes other particles — will slam into air molecules 50 miles or so above the surface, rapidly shedding energy and giving rise to a shower of billions of electrons, positrons, and muons that rain down onto the terrain below.

Based on the newly calculated mass and density of Cressida, simulations suggest it will slam into another moon, Desdemona, in a million years.

In a crystal, thin film or even some liquids, an incoming particle of light can slam into an electron, bumping it to a higher energy level and leaving a hole at the energy level where the particle had been.

In shallow water, fish slam into my boots.

And while material spewing from the icy visitor probably won't trigger the colossal meteor showers on the Red Planet that some scientists predicted, dust and water vapor may still slam into Mars, briefly heating up its atmosphere and threatening orbiting spacecraft.

Territorial disputes are common among these crafty critters, which chase intruders at high speeds for long distances and often slam into them in midair.

ISS - CREAM detects cosmic ray particles when they slam into the matter making up its instruments.

They slam into one another, only to blow open again, buffeted by the steady airflow from the lungs.

After circling the sun for decades, it has apparently been recaptured by Earth's gravity, and there's a fair chance it will slam into the moon sometime next year.

But superheated plasma created when large asteroids slam into the lunar surface can produce a magnetic field for at most only one or two days.

Instead, the structures catch the cascade of particles cosmic rays produce when they slam into Earth's atmosphere, called an air shower.

AUSTIN — Millions of birds slam into buildings, wind turbines, and other structures every year — a problem that could be lessened by erecting «acoustic lighthouses» to warn them of their impending doom, according to a study presented here today at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science.

But they can still watch as dust particles slam into the Martian atmosphere and light it up in a blaze of energy.

Schultz thought that when small comets slam into the Moon's surface — as they occasionally do — the coma may scour away loose soil from the surface, not unlike the gas from the lunar modules.

When Earth crosses that path, we see the grains burn up as they slam into the atmosphere.

Electrons and ions slam into the moon's surface with the intensity of a particle accelerator.

«It's really hard to torque a black hole around by a large amount without having something as massive as another black hole slam into it,» says astrophysicist Scott Hughes of the University of California, Santa Barbara, co-author of a forthcoming independent analysis that draws similar conclusions.

Drawing on their work with fast - moving charged particles and materials such as silicon, they performed experiments that showed that charged water particles could slam into rust or sand grains and generate O2.

Short - lived particles called muons are produced in Earth's atmosphere when charged particles from space slam into gas molecules.

They both carried a plaque, you may recall, with an image of a man and a woman, the hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen, the position of the earth and solar system, and some other info of possible interest of the lawyers for any intelligent beings whose house the things may slam into some distant day.

Taken with the orbiting Chandra Observatory, it shows the hottest, most violent objects in the galaxy: black holes gobbling down matter, gas heated to millions of degrees by dense, whirling neutron stars, and the high - energy radiation from stars that have exploded, sending out vast amounts of material that slam into surrounding gas, creating shock waves that heat the gas tremendously, generating X-rays.

On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

Those gamma rays are produced when energetic positrons and electrons slam into low - energy light particles, producing higher - energy radiation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio have promised to set aside their differences and cooperate on responding to the major snowstorm expected to slam into the five boroughs and Long Island.

Former Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon is the latest politician to turn a critic's derogatory slam into a rallying cry for supporters.

The black communities will be horrified when Blair's economic policies not only slam into the poorest people in Britain but also create a base for a new rise of racism and fascist groups like the BNP.

Facing what could be the most powerful storm to slam into the United States in more than a decade, Trump and the team he has put in place at FEMA were bracing today for one of the most important tests of his presidency.

MOUNT HOPE, the Bronx — Five people are in the hospital after a car struck multiple vehicles, causing one to slam into a 73 - year - old pedestrian in the Bronx on Friday, police said.

This will make your child slam into slow motion.

The keeper parried, and with the defenders occupied with Iwobi and Giroud, Alexis read the play well to find a bit of space near the edge of the box to run onto the ball and slam it into the bottom corner.

Early in the second half, Greg Vanney's side doubled its lead with a well - worked team goal, as Marky Delgado played Auro into the penalty and the Brazilian played a perfect pass across goal for an onrushing Ashtone Morgan to slam into the America goal.

Also, the newest «safety» measure doesn't really even make the game any safer, since kickoff coverage team members and return team members will still slam into one another at high speed before the ball is fair caught.

«One time he was driving a dog team through the tundra and he heard a loud noise, then felt something slam into his arm.

During a Pirelli World Challenge race at St. Petersburg, his Bentley Continental GT3 seemed to lose braking on the way into turn 10 (one of the fastest parts of the course), leaving him no option but to slam into the tyre barriers in spectacular fashion.

But when we see a ball, moving faster than a car on a highway, suddenly slam into a unwitting defender, we scream for penalties.

It be nice for them to slam into the arms of Vea.

I'm angry, and I have been ever since I watched a 767 slam into the North Tower of the World Trade Center while walking to the office on a lovely late «summer morning last September.