Sentence examples for capturing asteroids from inspiring English sources

But we were talking about capturing asteroids.

On Tuesday, a committee in the Democrat-controlled Senate is scheduled to work on its version of the bill, one that makes no mention of capturing asteroids but gives leeway to NASA to do whatever it thinks best for getting to Mars.

Nevertheless, many moons are asteroid-size or smaller, and some are probably captured asteroids or comet nuclei.

Other objects in the solar system have similar retrograde orbits, including four of Jupiter's outermost moons--which astronomers believe are captured asteroids.

Mars's two moons, Phobos and Deimos, may look like captured asteroids thanks to their irregular shapes, but new simulations suggest that they were formed from a billion-year-old collision between an asteroid and the Red Planet, Science News reports.

McKinnon says that if the moons are really captured asteroids, they should have elliptical orbits far from the planet, but they actually have circular paths close to the planet, as expected if the satellites formed by impact.

Scientists want to discover whether Phobos and Deimos are captured asteroids that Mars pulled into its orbit or whether they were blasted off the surface of the planet by cosmic impact.

But, he adds, "I think by far the interpretation most consistent with observable characteristics of the moons aside from their orbits—[their] density, spectral properties, [dark color] would be that they're captured asteroids".

The comic explained that officials at the US space agency Nasa would one day use large rockets to capture asteroids and put them to use for both pure science and practical industrial purposes: "This would make it possible to study the origins of the solar system, possibly increase our store of minerals and even learn about the beginnings of life".

Mars's two small moons, Deimos and Phobos, are thought to be captured asteroids.

These may be captured asteroids, similar to 5261 Eureka, a Mars trojan.