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Asteroid in sentence

114 examples of Asteroid in a sentence

Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid landed on Earth near the Yucatan Peninsula, creating conditions equivalent to those of a nuclear war, and the dinosaurs were wiped out.
And we human beings are part of that creative evolutionary pulse that began 65 million years ago with the landing of an asteroid.
There's an outer space layer with black holes and satellites and research satellites and asteroid mining.
And I'm going to put together, as guest editor, a special issue on the question, "Did an asteroid kill the dinosaurs?"
And the first paper is a standard scientific paper, presenting evidence, "Iridium layer at the K-T boundary, and potassium argon dated crater in Yucatan, indicate that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
"The President of the Royal Society has been vouchsafed a strong inner conviction that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
"It has been privately revealed to Professor Huxtane that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
"Professor Hawkins has promulgated an official dogma binding on all loyal Hawkinsians that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
You know, this happens to be the asteroid belt of architectural garbage two miles north of my town.
This is an image of an asteroid that passed us in 2009.
Apophis is an asteroid that was discovered in 2004.
We didn't really necessarily understand these keyholes, and now we do, and it turns out that's really important, because how do you stop an asteroid like this?
But we can't move the Earth, at least not easily, but we can move a small asteroid.
If we see an asteroid that's coming toward us, headed right for us, and we have two years to go? Boom!
The problem is, if you hit this asteroid, you've changed the orbit, you measure the orbit, then you find out, oh yeah, we just pushed it into a keyhole, and now it's going to hit us in three years.
If we see an asteroid that's going to hit the Earth and we have enough time, we can hit it to move it into a better orbit.
The gravity of the asteroid pulls on the probe, and the probe has a couple of tons of mass.
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth.
Yet, we dither, taking no action to divert the asteroid, even though the longer we wait, the more difficult and expensive it becomes.
Hansen closed his talk by saying, "Imagine a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
Yet we dither, taking no action to deflect the asteroid, even though the longer we wait, the more difficult and expensive it becomes."
All right, now this might not sound as scary as an asteroid, but look at these graphs that Levin showed.
Our problem and our tragedy is that in these hyper-partisan times, the mere fact that one side says, "Look, there's an asteroid," means that the other side's going to say, "Huh?
So here's another asteroid.
The left has been screaming about this asteroid for 30 years now, and the right says, "Huh, what?
Well, one of the largest causes, after globalization, is actually this fourth asteroid, rising non-marital births.
Now the right has been screaming about this asteroid since the 1960s, and the left has been saying, "It's not a problem.
The New York Times finally noticed this asteroid with a front-page story last July showing how the decline of marriage contributes to inequality.
And finally, number one: biggest danger to life as we know it, I think, a really big asteroid heads for Earth.
In 1989, a large asteroid passed 400,000 miles away from Earth.
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