Sentences with phrase «wide asteroid»

True science strives to unlock these greatest mysteries of the universe and find the answers that will save humanity when the next six mile wide asteroid says «Time's up, pencils down.

The legendary biologist E.O. Wilson compares humanity's collective impact to the 9 - mile wide asteroid that 65 million years ago slammed into the Chicxulub coast of Yucatan at a speed of 45,000 miles per hour, exterminating the non-avian dinosaurs and causing the 5th mass extinction of species.

One five - mile wide asteroid impact would wipe out the biosphere.

Archaeologists hope the find could shed light on the life of A 3 - mile (5 km) wide asteroid, named 3200 Phaethon, will comes «close» to Earth this week, bringing with it the stunning Geminids meteor shower.

The impact of an 15 kilometer [9 mile]- wide asteroid approximately 65 million years ago is linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

It is the closest that the 2.7 mile wide asteroid, named Florence, will have come to Earth since 1890 — and it will not come this near again until 2500.

Only discovered sixteen days ago, the 400 - metre - wide asteroid will fly past Earth at a safe distance slightly farther than the Moon's orbit on 31 October at 5:05 pm GMT.

One such object, a 200 - metre - wide asteroid called 2004 GU9, has been looping around Earth this way for 500 years, but is expected to eventually drift away.

On Friday, IAU and NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena gave the 30 - to 70 - meter - wide asteroid a one in 500 chance of smashing into Earth on 29 September 2030.

Two teams reported complementary observations of the 200 - kilometer - wide asteroid, known as 24 Themis, in the April 29 Nature.

According to the going theory, a six - mile - wide asteroid slammed into the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago, throwing enough dust up into the atmosphere to dim the sun for years, killing off green plants and triggering a famine that wiped out all the dinosaurs in the geologic blink of an eye.

It would remain this way for another 15 million years or so, until the day, when T. rex was at the peak of its success rampaging across western North America, that a 10 - kilometer - wide asteroid fell out of the sky and the world changed in an flash.

Later that day, a totally unrelated 150 - foot - wide asteroid named 2012 DA14 made a close approach, coming within about 17,000 miles of hitting us — some 5,000 miles closer than many TV and weather satellites.

The mile - wide asteroid Braille, visited by the Deep Space 1 spacecraft in 1999, appears to be a big chip that broke off Vesta.

A tsunami spreads outward from the simulated impact of a 200 - meter - wide asteroid into the ocean.

The 5 - kilometre - wide asteroid Cruithne orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit that is locked in a complex resonance with the Earth, making periodic and predictable close approaches.

New Scientist reported possible NASA plans to capture a 7 - metre - wide asteroid and place it in the moon's orbit (2 January,...

Computer models suggest that the fragments — which range from 2 to 19 kilometers wide — were spawned when a 3 - kilometer - wide projectile hit a 25 - kilometer - wide asteroid.

IF A 1 - kilometre - wide asteroid lands in the ocean, tsunamis won't be our only worry.

Many scientists currently believe that the mass extinction of life on Earth around 65m years ago was caused by a 110km - wide asteroid that hit Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

It should launch in 2016, travel to a 520 - meter - wide asteroid named Bennu, grab a sample of Bennu's surface and bring that sample back to Earth in a canister that arrives in 2023.

A few years after noticing the iridium, Alvarez came up with his proverbial 100th idea: If a miles - wide asteroid or comet smashed into Earth, it would also throw up a dust cloud that blocked out the sun and snuffed out life.

A 9 - mile - wide asteroid smashed into a shallow sea off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago.

In just a few hours a two - mile wide asteroid will pass right by Earth, if it veers off course and collides with your house, will insurance cover it?

Not exact matches

It could be up to 10 times as long as it is wide — a shape never before seen in an asteroid.

The asteroid left a roughly 110 - mile - wide crater — now buried beneath sediment — centered near Chicxulub, a tiny Mexican town.

NASA's Spaceguard survey program, established in 1998, aims to locate and follow at least 90 percent of the estimated 1,100 asteroids that come within about 30 million miles of Earth's orbit around the sun and that are larger than two - thirds of a mile wide.

This map shows the overlapping orbits (blue) of the 1,400 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids — objects more than about 400 feet wide that can approach within 4.6 million miles of Earth.

Their wide - ranging list included colliding asteroids, a shattered planet and a swarm of comets.

NASA researchers have their own plan, the Near - Earth Object Program — the agency's program to spot 90 percent of all potentially hazardous asteroids more than two - thirds of a mile wide that might hit Earth in the foreseeable future.

The vast bulk of asteroids — millions of individual objects ranging from 560 - mile - wide Ceres to pea - size pieces of space shrapnel — reside in a broad zone between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the legendary asteroid belt.

The culprit was an asteroid 7 to 10 kilometres wide, or so we had thought.

However, the debris stream responsible for the annual Geminid shower in December follows the orbit of a 5 - kilometre - wide object called 3200 Phaethon, which appears to be an asteroid.

He says their most likely birthplace is the asteroid belt, which occupies a wide swathe of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1223474).

The most likely scenario, he says, is that an asteroid just 10 or 20 feet wide struck the larger object, called P / 2010 A2, which measures almost 400 feet across.

A 9 - mile wide (14 kilometers) asteroid struck off the coast of Mexico 66 million years ago, wiping out 75 percent of life on Earth.

Asteroids, in particular, contain cobalt and a lot of platinum, which is rare on Earth and yet is used in a wide range of goods, including catalytic converters, electronics, and medical devices.

These core samples contain bits of the original granite bedrock that was the unlucky target of cosmic wrath 66 million years ago, when a large asteroid struck Earth, blasted open the 180 - kilometer - wide Chicxulub crater, and led to the extinction of most life on the planet.

The proposed Phobos - Deimos forming impactor would be between the size of the asteroid Vesta, which has a diameter of 326 miles, and the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 587 miles wide.

An asteroid, also known as the Chicxulub Impactor, hit Earth some 66 million years ago, causing a crater 180 km wide.

NASA's asteroid hunter, the Near - Earth Object Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), has been imaging, and will continue to image, the comet as part of its operations.

Like the three other big outer - solar - system objects discovered in the past three years — including 560 - mile - wide Varuna, found in 2000 — Quaoar resides in the Kuiper belt, a wide swath of asteroids located past Neptune.

An asteroid five miles wide would cause major extinctions, like the one that may have marked the end of the age of dinosaurs.

Geologist Luann Becker argues that 250 million years ago an asteroid six miles wide crashed into the seafloor off the coast of Australia.

As expected, the simulations showed that the larger, 1 - km asteroid created the bigger splash, throwing 42 trillion kilograms of water and vapour — enough to fill 16 million Olympic - sized swimming pools — across an area more than 1000 kilometres wide and up to hundreds of kilometres above the Earth's surface.

An asteroid almost as wide as Rhode Island may have plowed into Earth 3.26 billion years ago, leaving a trace in South Africa's Barberton greenstone belt.

They focused on medium - sized asteroids, either 500 metres or 1 kilometre wide.

To date, 818 asteroids that are at least 1 km wide have been discovered on orbits that could take them close to Earth.

According to Keck, NASA would use an ion - propelled rocket to lasso a resource - rich asteroid about 7 metres wide and tow it into lunar orbit.

But rather than a monotonously uniform surface homogenized by impact cratering over the eons, the first up - close look at the asteroid reveals a full palette of mineral «colors» (mapped here in false color reflecting the wide range of rock compositions).