Sentence examples for asteroid from inspiring English sources

But one scientist on the team said the beasts might have prevailed had the asteroid struck earlier or later than it did.

Though devastating for the dinosaurs, the asteroid strike cleared the way for other animals to gain ground and thrive on the planet.

Of the eight footballers to have asteroids named after them, 10634_Pepibican, so-named after the Czech-Austrian striker Josef Pepii" Bican and loitering about in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is the largest with a radius of, erm, 20km.

Decoded, the central theme of the allegory parallels Saint-Exupéry's own wanderlust, his contempt for the consumer age, his meeting with other "roses", and his recognition that he had made a commitment to take care of the unique flower on asteroid B-612, for all her vanity.

"I would think having an asteroid named after you (even a minor one) is pretty impressive," he writes.

"The 'price' of an asteroid is not well-defined but travelling back and forth is already extremely expensive".

The scientists' report, published in Biological Reviews, found that while, largely, the dinosaurs were faring well at the time of the asteroid impact, the big plant-eating types, including the horned triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs, had suffered a loss of biodiversity.

So if it wasn't for that asteroid, then humans probably wouldn't be here.

Earth's history is marked by a number of major mass extinctions of species, triggered by volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts and release of methane from sediments.

The group looked at work done on prehistoric climate and temperatures, changes in sea levels, volcanic activity and biodiversity, before reaching a consensus that the asteroid was the prime culprit.

"If the asteroid didn't hit, I have no reason to believe they'd have gone extinct.