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Asteroid in sentence

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An asteroid hits, and the world went down in flames.
Anything that gets too close to the central singularity of a black hole, be it an asteroid, planet, or star, risks being torn apart by its extreme gravitational field.
Meanwhile, one with the mass of the asteroid Vesta would have a temperature close to 200 degrees Celsius, thus releasing a lot of energy in the form of Hawking Radiation to the cold outside environment.
The only abrupt worldwide change would have been major asteroid impacts or volcanic super-eruptions.
And that's what happens in an asteroid catastrophe, because that's what this was, of course.
But we haven't witnessed a big asteroid impact, so this is a type of neo-catastrophism, and it took about 20 years for the scientific establishment to finally come to grips: yes, we were hit; and yes, the effects of that hit caused a major mass extinction.
And there they would hide for 160 million years, until liberated by that K-T asteroid.
That’s why you could effortlessly escape an asteroid the size of a small mountain using just the force generated by your legs.
Except that an asteroid hit Mexico, and then that triggered volcanoes on the other side of the world in India, and everything almost died again.
He looked at the odds of another world war, of a massive volcanic eruption, even of an asteroid hitting the Earth.
These little green peaks are asteroid collisions.
Earlier this year, a virtual asteroid in it sold for 330,000 real dollars.
An asteroid grazes the atmosphere and thrust the Earth into an orbit closer to the sun.
Then the asteroid breaks apart, and the largest piece is pushed into a direct collision path with earth.
The main character, Dr. Sorensen, is a washed up astronomer who believes that an asteroid named "Nemesis" will strike Earth, causing all life to cease.
For what I know of films, most of the catastrophes in films are basically run of the mill asteroid flicks or one of which of Global Warming.
1) Perhaps it was the morality of the 1950s talking, but no man left alone on an asteroid for years would react with such hysterical negativity to the gift of a female android.
This budget-starved Italian action/sci-fi hybrid features David Warbeck as a Miami reporter who is chosen by the ghosts of the people of Atlantis (!) to stop an evil businessman (Academy Award nominee John Ireland) from using a telepathic fetus grown using spores from an asteroid to rule the world.
Incredibly bad Future Prison movie in which sweaty leather-clad Vin Deisel wannabees run around a former mining asteroid turned penal institution shooting 20th century handguns at each other (as it was set in the 23rd Century, this is the equivalent of having James Bond run around with a muzzle loading flintlock) and generally being sweatily homo-erotically sadistic to everyone in sight.
Innovative but horribly done movie about an astronaut forced by thugs to seize an asteroid that is literally one huge diamond rock.
With scenes of quick back-and-forth, genre-distilling moments ("I'm the smartest man on your panel who never speaks up unless the world is in terrible danger..."), Ben Affleck is blown up by a piece of asteroid.
If you'll remember he was abandoned on deserted asteroid.
You can tell what sort of movie this is by the way the music changes depending on whether we're looking at the (extremely phallic) American or Russian missiles; whether we're watching them changing aim, whether we're watching them launch, whether we're watching them run out of fuel, whether we're watching them approaching the asteroid or strike it in a cataclysmic 'strobe' effect or whether we're just watching them gleam in space.
There's also an unmistakable deep synthesiser fnaaaar-fnaaarp to indicate that we're watching the asteroid.
I gave it a 'two' because I was thinking, 'if the asteroid is in space, it's weightless - so why do they need 20 hundred-megaton warheads to divert it?',
Dave Lister, a working-class, curry-loving, lager-swilling, chicken soup machine repairman aboard the asteroid mining ship, Red Dwarf, is placed in stasis as punishment for smuggling an unregistered cat on board.
It's 2038 the planet earth is out of national resources, but there's a whole asteroid belt of deserted, lifeless rocks from which all the world's resources can be drawn.
The "bus" is controlled by R2 and a droid called RX-1138, or just Rex, a troublesome droid who makes many mistakes during the film, like entering an ice asteroid.
Disgruntled former scientist with NASA is brought back to the fold after a comet--"wrenched out of orbit by Jupiter's gravitational pull!"--collides with an asteroid in space, sending a chunk of rock five miles wide heading straight for Earth.
A permanent settlement on Mars would reduce the risk of climate change – or a nuclear war, bioterrorism, or asteroid collision – wiping out our species.
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