Sentences with phrase «unlike other asteroids»

However, unlike other asteroids, they sometimes have the appearance of comets, when dust or gas is ejected from their surfaces to create a sporadic tail effect.

It's also unlike any other asteroid we've seen before.

Not exact matches

In the early 1970s researchers discovered that Vesta's composition is unlike that of any other asteroid: it is made of basalt.

The meteorites» mineralogical composition showed that, like Earth and the other rocky planets but unlike almost all other asteroids, the newly formed Vesta melted and stratified into a rocky crust, a mantle, and an iron.

That is unlike any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date, and may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed.

While its elongated shape is quite surprising, and unlike asteroids seen in our solar system, it may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed.

Whether you are pulling a «fly - by» up close to a massive carrier ship or dodging in between gaps in asteroid fields to chase down and take out other players in multiplayer, it feels unlike anything else you've played.