Sentences with phrase «wide space rock»

On that same day, a 19 - meter - wide space rock plowed through the atmosphere and exploded over southwestern Russia near Chelyabinsk, shattering windows and causing more than 1,600 injuries.

Hitting the planet at a speed of 20 kilometers per second, the 37 - to 58 - kilometer - wide space rock could have jolted Earth with at least the force of a magnitude 10.8 earthquake and set off tsunamis thousands of meters high, researchers report April 14 in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.

Not exact matches

The seat isn't as wide as other choices, but you will have ample space to get comfortable while rocking your baby.

The space rock is just 154 miles wide, yet when it passed in front of a distant star, two delicate, icy rings clearly stood out.

EL61, as it is officially known, is a mass of ice and rock that flops through space with a spin rate far faster than that of any known body its size, making complete rotations around its wide axis every four hours.

These giant space rocks would cause a global catastrophe if one were to strike the Earth (watch a Japanese simulation of the effects of a huge 100 - km - wide impactor).

When it is upgraded with the world's largest camera in 2007, it will be able to find space rocks as small as a few hundred metres wide.

The craft would then propel itself out to a target asteroid, probably a small space rock about 7 metres wide.

The space rock, about as wide as three football fields, won't do any damage to Earth, but the near miss could trigger tiny avalanches on the asteroid itself.

At 45 metres wide, the space rock is the biggest object in recorded history to swoop this close to Earth.

Torrence Johnson, Galileo project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says the 170 - mile - wide body is probably «a very porous rubble pile, made of light rock mixed with ice and a fair amount of empty space.»

The little moonlet, which according to The Verge is about 20 miles wide and resembles «a little space rock with what looks like two googly eyes,» resides in what is known as the Encke Gap, a 200 - mile - wide space between Saturn's rings that is caused by the diminutive object itself.

Dialogue is crisp and the fairly good selection of vintage rock tunes is well conveyed, even sometimes spacing out to enforce a wide soundfield.

These visual properties combine with other elements like the evocative sound design and carefully detailed locations to generate what is perhaps the film's most exceptional quality: a true sense of being somewhere — with actual people in actual places, whether they be as loudly wide - open as a rock band's studio loft show or as comfortably intimate as a suburban basement - turned - practice - space.

It is filled with wide open spaces, crawling crabs, sandy desert beaches, large rocks and dense shrubbery.