Sentence examples for a glancing collision from inspiring English sources

A statement posted on the Ministry of Defence website said: "At approximately 1.30pm local time today [Wednesday], HMS Ambush, an Astute-class submarine, while submerged and conducting a training exercise was involved in a glancing collision with a merchant vessel off the coast of Gibraltar.

But it was very likely much smaller than Mars-sized, and it was almost certainly a sturdy strike, rather than a glancing collision.

Although a glancing hit, the collision was so violent that it flung the U-boat's captain and first lieutenant from the submarine's conning tower into the motorboat stowed on the destroyer's deck.

An immediate investigation has been launched after HMS Ambush was involved in the "glancing" collision while submerged off the coast of Gibraltar, the Royal Navy said.

(see also ISS ECLSS) During the operation of Mir, a number of accidents occurred which threatened the safety of the station, such as the glancing collision between Kristall and Soyuz TM-17 during proximity operations in January 1994.

And perhaps most directly, you can look for rare, glancing collisions between normal matter in a detector here on Earth, and the dark matter cloud the Earth is assumed to be continually rushing through.

The lifetime of the atoms in the fibre is of serious concern to discuss its potential applications, as glancing collisions with residual gases severely limit the coherence time of trapped atoms.

For excitation with low Δ j, the scattering is dominated by glancing collisions with relatively high impact parameters leading to forward scattering.

Using a glancing-collision model35 and taking into account the measured lifetimes and trap depth, we estimate the vacuum pressure in the middle and outside of the fibre to be Pin≈1.7 × 10−6 Pa and Pout≈1 × 10−6 Pa.

But because it was a glancing blow ie, the collision between Earth and the theoretical planet was slightly off center a huge amount of molten and incandescent silicone vapor was blasted into space, and into orbit around Earth.

But was it a head-on collision or a glancing blow?