Sentences with phrase «space rocks into»

Here's a novel concept: pounding space rocks into space dust could actually be fun!

A brilliant, bright - green meteor blazed through the sky just north of Milwaukee early this morning (Feb. 6), and likely sprinkled space rocks into Lake Michigan.

Like an unseen spider visibly tugging on a web of gravitational strings, a hidden celestial body is luring distant space rocks into clusters of orbits too conspicuous to ignore.

Not exact matches

Such collisions release a huge amount of energy into universe, warping space and time as the waves travel outward, like a rock dropped into the center of a pond.

But if you place the rocks in the jar first, the sand easily falls into place — filling all the empty space between the rocks.

Today, he beams himself beyond the third rock from the sun and into space.

This closes the loop and I do not need to go into the time / space dimensions of God that is demanded when the philosophical game «God makes a rock he can not lift» is played.

Matter is no longer an ultimate concept; the hierarchy of macroscopic, molecular, atomic, subatomic levels trails away without hitting rock - bottom until matter dissolves into patterns of energy - concentration, and then perhaps into tensions in space.

From pint and rocks glasses to stemless wineglasses, this collection brings the brilliance of outer space into the home.

His gift is putting moves on you to get into the open space and running that rock.

So if you are cuddling or rocking your baby to sleep, wait until her arm is floppy before trying to move her into her own sleep space.

I snuck past the rock and rest room, where children were napping, and peaked into the lecture space where the talks would soon be taking place.

Or, choosing a more compact convertible crib may give you added space for a glider and ottoman set, so you can rock baby in comfort during late night feedings without having to shuffle into the living room (and risk waking a snoozing baby on the way back!).

A Republican lawmaker on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee said Thursday that rocks from the White Cliffs of Dover and the California coastline, as well as silt from rivers tumbling into the ocean, are contributing to high sea levels globally.

«To be able to just go and find a chunk of rock floating out in space 43 astronomical units away, and know that in just a few years» time you're going to be flying by it — that's why I got into space exploration,» Buie says.

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

Space colonizers could even adopt a DIY approach to building materials by baking lunar and Martian regolith — rocks and dirt — into ceramics, rather than transporting heavy supplies like steel and metal.

The incoming space rock could get progressively closer to Earth, its line of risk getting thinner and shorter until finally it turns into a dot of certain devastation.

Or perhaps a microbe - bearing rock was hurled by an impact into space and landed on Venus or Mars, which may have been more hospitable to life billions of years ago.

The likelihood that one of these space rocks poses a real threat to human lives may be low — researchers at Prince - ton University have placed 1 - in - 5,000 odds on an asteroid two - thirds of a mile across smacking into Earth sometime in the next century (for comparison, the risk that you will be struck by lightning in your lifetime is about 1 in 3,000)-- but the stakes are high.

In that case, the ice seen on the surface now would once have been buried beneath dust and rock that insulated it from the sun's heat and prevented it from escaping into space.

When the rocks approach Jupiter, the occasional asteroid can find itself pushed out of the procession and into deep space; some spin out beyond Pluto's orbit, while others fall toward the sun, each with its own unique orbit.

Would even the hardiest life forms be able to survive an impact which ejects the rock into space?

That is when an asteroid struck Mars, catapulting the rock into space.

Then, on Christmas morning in 2004, Bard was clearing what she thought might be the back wall of a rock shelter when she stuck her hand through the sand into an open space.

The infamous space rock that slammed into Earth and helped wipe out the dinosaurs may have been a binary — two asteroids orbiting each other.

Meteorite impacts have also flung bits of Mars into space; Mike Zolensky, a space geologist with the Stardust mission, estimates that roughly one Mars rock a day hits Earth.

And since its surface is icy and it has a penchant for spewing water and ammonia into space, researchers have concluded it probably has a crust of ice, a watery mantle and a core of solid rock.

Over decades it dissolves into the brine that shares the pore space or, over longer time spans, forms carbonate minerals with the surrounding rock, Hovorka notes.

Convection currents, like those that move molten rock within the Earth's mantle, would develop, helping to transfer heat into space, the models showed.

The prevailing view has been that planets mostly accumulate water only long after they form: If a young planet with water trapped in its rocks collides with another heavenly body or even large debris — common occurrences in the cosmos — the impact would, presumably, drive accumulated water into space, leaving many planets bone - dry.

The evidence lies in the fact that the lavas, now hardened into basalts, still contain a fair amount of light helium isotopes, which would have escaped to space had the rocks spent much time anywhere near the surface.

We will rock you into outer space Queen guitarist Brian May is a stone's throw from completing what rock superstardom interrupted more than 30 years ago: his astrophysics PhD.

SPACE ROCKS The size of the asteroid that may have killed the dinosaurs (Chicxulub) and even Mount Everest look tiny compared to a space rock that may have slammed into Earth 3.26 billion yearsSPACE ROCKS The size of the asteroid that may have killed the dinosaurs (Chicxulub) and even Mount Everest look tiny compared to a space rock that may have slammed into Earth 3.26 billion yearsspace rock that may have slammed into Earth 3.26 billion years ago.

There, the microscopically small grains of rock from the core are catapulted along with ice particles into space, where they were measured by the instruments on the Cassini space probe,» explained the Heidelberg planetary scientist.

Icy volcanoes on Enceladus launch huge jets of gas and icy grains that contain fine particles of rock into space.

Sarah Marquardt, a meteorologist at the Milwaukee office, told Space.com that the radar instruments likely identified the space rock as it broke up into very small pieces.

One chunk of that debris floated around in space for roughly 5 million years — Agee can tell by the traces of cosmic radiation etched into the rock — until it fell to Earth, and ultimately into Agee's lab.

The rock sat on the surface for eons until an asteroid struck Mars and flung bits of its crust into space.

Plumes of water thought to be spewed into space from the ocean would make the search easier — but now it seems these plumes could just be warm rocks.

If Pluto's core was rocky and its mantle icy, most of the material blasted into space by the collision would have been ice, accounting for Pluto's high rock - to - ice ratio today.

The infamous space rock that slammed into Earth and helped wipe it clean of large dinosaurs may have been a binary — two asteroids orbiting each other.

The rocks look different because of the amount of infrared light they radiate into space, similar to the way a brick wall heats up during the day and gives off its heat at night.

This impact ejected rocks into space.

An asteroid that slammed into the Sudan desert on Oct. 7, 2008, shot out lots of little space rocks holding a precious secret: diamonds that likely formed billions of years ago inside the embryo of a now - decimated planet.

Initially, the Earth's surface was mostly molten rock that gradually cooled through the radiation of heat into space.

Friction during the meteor's flight through the atmosphere caused the space rock to break into pieces.

Recently, geologists suggested these grains may have formed in huge impact craters produced as chunks of rock from space, up to several kilometres in diameter, slammed into a young Earth.

The asteroid rotates around every 2.1 hours, meaning that the rocks on its surface should be flung into space.

Since the rock above was hard and rigid, it didn't fall down into the empty space where the remains used to be.