Sentences with phrase «with big asteroids»

But with big asteroids, it doesn't matter much where they land.

Science agrees, with a big asteroid ending the age of dinosaurs, hitting near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago.

Not exact matches

The biggest problem with waiting isn't the sun expanding or an asteroid approaching.

Standing beside each other, these bottles would stretch for over six miles — each full to the brim with sand, each grain a solar system (probably) on average as big and complex as ours, resplendent with planets, moons, asteroids and, in some cases, perhaps life.

With the solar collector, we go out there and orbit the asteroid, but the whole deflection scenario has the advantage of being slow, big, fragile, and unlikely to be misused as a weapon.

Another possibility is that Mercury was once a bigger planet and lost its outer shell not through an encounter with the sun but in a collision with an asteroid or another planet.

Then there's NASA's new focus on spaceships and huge rockets permitting human travel beyond the moon, with a visit to a near - Earth asteroid in the mid-2020s as the first big goal.

Radioactive atoms would have melted the ice, making a sludgy mud that became rock, perhaps aided by gravitational pressure once the asteroid got big enough, or impacts with other objects.

So far, surveys have discovered several thousand near - Earth objects, but astronomers estimate that as many as a million have diameters greater than 50 metres, big enough to be dangerous in a collision with Earth (see UN urged to coordinate killer asteroid defences).

According to Hawking's theory, numerous tiny primordial black holes, possibly with a mass equal to that of an asteroid or less, might have been created during the big bang, a state of extremely high temperatures and density in which the universe is thought to have originated 13.8 billion years ago.

The radar results found that the bigger asteroids are covered with fine - grained dirt, the pulverized rock created by hundreds of millions of years of meteoroid impact.

Its bulk would either send a small asteroid on a different trajectory, or in the case of a bigger one, it would be fitted with a nuclear weapon that would do its job (hopefully, for everyone alive at the time) with a bang.

Traditionally, the solar system has been divided into planets (the big bodies orbiting the Sun), their satellites (a.k.a. moons, variously sized objects orbiting the planets), asteroids (small dense objects orbiting the Sun) and comets (small icy objects with highly eccentric orbits).

According to the study, that would ensure that Earth would be re-seeded with life, following big, cataclysmic events like the Late Heavy Bombardment which happened approximately 4 billion years ago when the space environment around the Earth was dominated by untold numbers of big asteroids in the aftermath of its formation.

«While Ceres is a lot bigger than the candidate asteroids that NASA is working on sending humans to, many of these smaller bodies are produced by collisions with larger asteroids such as Ceres and Vesta.

Armageddon was a part of one of Hollywood's notorious big - budget showdowns, losing a «race for the screen» with Paramount's competing asteroid - disaster picture Deep Impact.

Brands Tuna has worked with include Family Guy, Big Brother, Cadbury, Asteroids, Boulder Dash, and indie hits Alien Hominid and Eufloria on platforms as wide ranging as iPhone, iPad, Android, Facebook, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PS3.

What's in store for mankind isn't entirely clear — the project combines the aesthetics of scientific papers with those of conspiracy theorists so the details are largely unintelligible — but we know it involves an asteroid and a big wave.

The tail end of 2017 was packed with interesting asteroid sightings and near - misses that gave skywatchers a reason to look up, but the biggest threat from above in 2018 might be manmade.