Asteroid in sentence

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An asteroid five miles wide causes major extinctions.

Because we can actually figure out every asteroid that's out there, and if it might hit Earth, and when it might hit Earth.

Part two of the solutions: we need to figure out how to blow up an asteroid, or alter its trajectory.

We sent a probe out to this asteroid belt, called NEAR, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.

We have landed a rocket ship on an asteroid.

A nuclear explosion is just as hot, but we don't really have anything big enough to melt a 22-mile long asteroid, or vaporize it, would be more like it.

The worst thing we can do is say, jeez, I got enough to worry about without worrying about an asteroid.

Here's one risk of extinction that we all became aware of recently, when an asteroid passed close to our planet.

Now, if you didn't like either of those two high-tech options, it's important to remember that low-tech is suicide from a cosmic perspective, because if we don't go far beyond today's technology, the question isn't whether humanity is going to go extinct, merely whether we're going to get taken out by the next killer asteroid, supervolcano or some other problem that better technology could have solved.

NASA's always on the lookout for possible asteroid collision hazards, so the Pan-STARRS telescope is scanning the sky every night.

These are the asteroids we may one day send spacecraft to, to mine them for minerals, but they're also the asteroids that may one day impact the Earth, like happened 60 million years ago with the extinction of the dinosaurs, or just at the beginning of the last century, when an asteroid wiped out almost 1,000 square miles of Siberian forest, or even just last year, as one burnt up over Russia, releasing the energy of a small nuclear bomb.

So every point in this visualization that you can see is a real asteroid.

All I can say in closing is: we heard yesterday that one of the 10 bad things that could happen to us is an asteroid with our name on it.

And one of the bad things that could happen to NASA is if that asteroid shows up with our name on it nine months out, and everybody says, "Well, what are we going to do?"

For a while, the reported odds that asteroid Apophis would strike Earth in 2036 were once 1 in 625.

A single, large asteroid could take us out forever.

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hits the Earth and wipes out the dinosaurs.

The tiniest perturbation of that asteroid far from Earth would have caused it to miss our planet by a wide margin.

You would never guess that they would amount to anything special, and they probably wouldn't have, were it not for that pesky asteroid.

Although it varies from asteroid to asteroid, the paths of most asteroids can be predicted for dozens of years.

For example, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory predicted where the asteroid Toutatis was going to be four years in advance to within 30 kilometers.

Now, the reason I have this beautiful asteroid fragment is because, like all neighbors, asteroids sometimes drop by unexpectedly.

Three years ago today, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia.

That's the size of the asteroid that hit the Earth.

If we found a hazardous asteroid with significant early warning, we could nudge it out of the way.

Unlike earthquakes, hurricanes or volcanic eruptions, an asteroid impact can be precisely predicted and prevented.

The Earth was struck by an asteroid, a huge amount of debris was jettisoned into the atmosphere.

An asteroid impact?

The study of dinosaurs led to the realization that there's a problem with asteroid impact, for example.

Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about.

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