asteroid造句

Simply claim squatter’s rights on a Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) asteroid and do some renovation.

She is orbiting the sun as the asteroid 216 Kleopatra.

Both this asteroid and the latest discovery are found in the asteroid belt that sits between Mars and Jupiter.

An asteroid could have annihilated the USA - and I wouldn't have heard the news for hours.

It will probably be easier to do this on the moon than on an asteroid.

Like a frozen asteroid belt, it's littered with chunks of ice and frozen methane and ammonia.

It also paves the way for an unmanned government-backed mission to visit an asteroid by 2025.

In the alternative, say theorists, we could also capture an asteroid and simply haul it into place.

Astronomers have detected an asteroid not far from Earth, moving in the same orbit around the Sun.

In this case, the orbit of the rotating asteroid will very slowly spiral in toward the sun.

This contradicts previous ideas which suggest the impact of the asteroid actually precipitated a period of glaciations, Gostin says.

If Bobylev's prediction holds and Earth escapes unscathed, it will catch a bit of a breather barring the oddball asteroid, solar storm or human-engineered disaster.

So if you've ever cowered under your covers at the thought of an asteroid impact, lighten up and try to focus on their scientific importance.

The central idea behind a Space Elevator involves lowering a cable — perhaps constructed from asteroid material — from geostationary Earth orbit to the surface of the Earth.

A politician who proposed a campaign of preventing asteroid collisions with Earth, for example, would be ridiculed and probably voted out of office.

Once an asteroid starts approaching Earth, it will do so again and again in an orbital waltz driven by gravity as both bodies travel around the Sun.

If scientists were to detect a 600-foot-wide asteroid ten years in advance, Yeomans says, it could be deflected with a two-ton projectile traveling six miles per second.

The theory that has developed is that asteroids in the the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter may have produced smaller meteorites which have shot off into space and landed on Earth.

The Hayabusa probe blazed a spectacular trail as it came in to hit the ground at a blistering speed, ending a journey to the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa that began in 2003.

If a 100-foot-wide asteroid hit Earth, the shock wave from its explosion in the atmosphere could flatten trees and kill every large animal for hundreds of square miles.

Find evidence of asteroid mining: Humans are already looking at the asteroids in our solar system and considering their potential for mining, so why wouldn't an alien civilization do the same?