Sentences with phrase «where small asteroids»

Not exact matches

It envisions the great reshuffling as a brief, violent affair that not only put the outer planets where they are today but also created the Kuiper belt of small icy bodies beyond Neptune, gave the planets scores of oddly orbiting moons, and bombarded the solar system with a rain of asteroids and comets so fierce that it would have cooked all but the deepest subterranean life on early Earth.

The tentative verdict is that this probably is the remnant of a recent asteroid collision, where a smaller body struck a larger object at a velocity of about 15,000 kilometer per hour.

The bridge mission could be anything from NASA's ambitious plan to capture an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit where astronauts could explore it, to a small and temporary station where astronauts can learn a little more about fending for themselves while in space.

It's indeed a space shooter where you shoot larger asteroids and break them into smaller asteroids, where you (eventually) face down more sophisticated enemies, but if you want to follow the original source material, you're going to need the «tank» style turn controls, with the added benefit of forward and reverse thrusters to fine tune your fancy flight and trajectory.