Sentences with phrase «small comet»
The phrase "small comet" refers to a small celestial object made up of ice and other materials that glows when it comes close to the sun. It is smaller in size compared to regular comets. Full definition
It appears to be a considerably smaller comet this time around, though.
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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.
The Kuiper belt sends a steady rain of small comets earthward.
A strike by a large asteroid or small comet nucleus (1 kilometer or greater) is but one of several kinds of independent high energy events that could destroy humanity and probably a significant number of other species as well.
To make one oddly shaped comet, take two smaller comets and squish them together.
If a smaller comet hit a larger one, its icy remains might be plastered on the surviving sibling.
The lack of an impact crater also suggested that the object could not have been a sturdy iron meteorite but a more fragile object, such as a relatively rare, stony asteroid or a small comet.
This bolsters the claim that a small comet impact kicked off the PETM, stirring up the carbon just 10 million years after a similar event decimated the dinosaurs.
Now, in new work presented on 27 September at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America and published this week in Science, a group of scientists bolsters its claim that a small comet impact kicked off the PETM, stirring up the carbon just 10 million years after a similar event decimated the dinosaurs.
For this project, you will make three large comets and three small comets.
Do bigger comets melt faster than smaller comets?