Sentences with phrase «very small asteroid»

In October of 1990 a very small asteroid struck the Pacific Ocean with a blast about the size of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima, killing roughly thousands of people in seconds.

The first concept would fully capture a very small asteroid in free space and the other would retrieve a boulder off of a much larger asteroid.

Not exact matches

The double asteroid 90 Antiope has come into sharp new detail, thanks to observations from the European Space Agency's Very Large Telescope and other smaller telescopes, which spied on the pair as it waltzed around the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

These four freakish asteroids are all very small, at a kilometer or less, which makes them unimaginably faint when viewed from a typical distance of a couple hundred million miles.

Asteroids and comets that formed in the outer disk beyond the carbon - oxygen fire must have brought what carbon (along with water) that Earth now has in large as well as very small impactors («cosmic fluff,» Duprat et al, 2010) over the past 4.6 billion years.

The small nation of Wakanda is a protected valley enclave in east Africa, hidden from outside eyes by some very advanced technology fueled by the alien metal vibranium, which arrived via asteroid millennia ago.

Strategic — Since asteroids break up into smaller pieces, shooting haphazardly is going to get you in one chaotic mess very quickly.

Exploring Europa, or the asteroid belt around Neptune and Pluto, being able to see Jupiter up in the distance or avoid the radiation and heat of the sun as you battle through a small mining compound on a runaway asteroid, it all felt very unique and much needed.

While I'm posting (I can see how you guys get into this) I'm also very uncomfortable with your notion of «tacit knowledge:» it certainly seems to be tacit knowledge in the blogosphere that the chances of the climate sensitivity (equilibrium warming on indefinite stabilization at 560ppm CO2, for the non-enthusiasts) being greater than or equal to 6 degrees are too small to be worth worrying about (meaning down at the level of an asteroid strike).

I would consider it very doubtful that the small mammals that scurried around the dinosaurs would have evolved into the vast panopoly of mammal species [including humans] were it not for the asteroid that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous 65 million years ago.

It's the same issue raised by people arguing against blowing up an asteroid, that it turns a single small cannonball into a very large shotgun blast with the same total energy being delivered and delivering it to the atmosphere is still a problem.

Although there's a very small chance it could happen, a large asteroid impacting the Earth would be a worldwide catastrophe.