Sentence examples for asteroid specialist from inspiring English sources

That's up to 9 kilometers per second slower than the average for bigger objects that have hit Earth over its history, says space scientist and asteroid specialist William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Although Mathilde's apparent low density may rise somewhat as researchers take better account of its irregular shape, it's unlikely that the final estimate will approach the density of solid rock, notes asteroid specialist Alan Harris of JPL.

In fact it goes back to 1994, when planetary scientist Jay Melosh, a specialist on meteorite impacts, and his colleagues proposed that asteroids on a collision course with our planet might be deflected by the type of nuclear blasts favoured in Armageddon.

A documentary called Disaster Playground was being filmed on the site; led by experimental film-maker Nelly Ben Hayoun, its crew had travelled the world asking catastrophe specialists to simulate on camera how they'd behave if an asteroid were to come in and raze their home town.

And the asteroid.

— Asteroid Watch (@AsteroidWatch) 1 Oct 13.

(b) In the asteroid belt.

"The K/T asteroid was something like six miles across, and it got blasted into pieces that would fit on the head of a pin," said Jeff Pleschia, a crater specialist with the United States Geological Service in Flagstaff, Ariz.

The large asteroid Vesta.

First, for asteroid evolution.

It is Asteroid Day.