Sentences with phrase «than asteroids»

A comet that is significantly smaller than an asteroid thus could release the same kinetic energy in such a collision.

That aspect ratio is greater than any asteroid or comet observed in the solar system.

ICY INTERIOR The solar system's first interstellar visitor might be a comet rather than an asteroid.

Although about 100 times as many asteroids as comets approach Earth, comets pack a bigger punch — they plunge toward the sun several times faster than asteroids.

In our solar system it would have been way further out than the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where most meteorites come from.

Great so the Inspiration Mars Mission 2018 is out... But the Inspiration Venus / Mars Mission 2021 is in!!!! This is great news and clearly will generate much more public interest than an Asteroid Mission which is just R&D for Planetary Resources, the company that will start mining asteroids... This is awesome

«It's really odd that the first object we would see from outside our system would be an asteroid, because a comet would be a lot easier to spot and the Solar System ejects many more comets than asteroids,» says Jackson, who specializes in planet and solar system formation.

With only a few exceptions, TNOs are larger than the asteroids in the inner solar system.

«Venus is more complicated than an asteroid.»

I thought the nukes were more of a danger to Earth than the asteroid itself.

Ceres is classified as a dwarf planet, a solar system body bigger than an asteroid and smaller than a planet.

Those comets already range much farther from the plane of the planets than asteroids do, and Jupiter's gravitational effects would drive their dust even farther afield.

Comets contain more water than asteroids and have different solar orbits, but missions to both kinds of bodies face similar challenges.

Land - based impacts were, on average, an order of magnitude more dangerous than asteroids that landed in oceans.

In addition, the data show that the temperature of the innermost ring imaged by the vortex is around 100 Kelvin (or minus 173 Celsius degrees), a bit warmer than our asteroid belt.

During its approach, Rosetta has trained its navcams and OSIRIS camera at the comet, which sent back dramatic pictures of Churyumov — Gerasimenko; revealing it to be craggier and sharper edged than the asteroids and moons previously explored that had been worn down by billions of years of meteor impacts.

Its orbit places Vesta in the Main Asteriod Belt, but the object more closely resembles a small planet or Earth's Moon than another asteroid (more discussion).

The announcement of an actor attached to the project, especially one that is so well know means that it is further along in development than Asteroids, Joust, or Missile Command.

More a fan of Space Invaders than Asteroids?

When I asked you on my blog how the Earth could have a hotter temperature than an asteroid at the same distance from the Sun.

Greater uncertainty, I suppose, and more catastrophic outcome than asteroid impact or any of the other scenarios that have been discussed.

Much less frequent than asteroids, but their quantity and risk are less certain.

Disrupting comets (white and red v's) rather than asteroids (green) contribute most of the dust that makes up the zodiacal cloud (purple haze and inset).

«Comets travel much faster than asteroids, and some of them are very big,» Mainzer said.

A meteoroid is any interplanetary object bigger than a speck of dust and smaller than an asteroid.

It really made me feel like they just want to spend money on design and fabricate some test vehicles but not launch them because # 1 it to expensive and # 2 they really don't know where to go or than an asteroid mission because Planetary Resources really doesn't want to spend their own money on R&D... Considering the events in the Ukraine and Iran... The world may end before the SLS / Orion goes anywhere other LEO or maybe just maybe to the Moon!!!

It may be little more than an asteroid — just two - billionths of the mass of our planet, with no atmosphere and hardly any gravity — yet the largest of Mars's two moons is poised to become our next outpost in space, our second home.