Sentence examples for collision shattered from inspiring English sources

The collision shattered the glass on both sides of Valentine's car, twisting it about 90 degrees, and unleashed the air bags on Valentine and his friend Doug Romano, who was in the front passenger's seat.

Ida belongs to an asteroid "family" of large fragments that must have formed when a collision shattered a much larger ancestral asteroid.

It is probably the result of a collision that shattered a pre-existing monolith.Hayabusa was launched in 2003 and matched orbits with Itokawa in 2005.

This distribution is consistent with the result expected from repeated collision and shattering of initially larger objects.

Such a collision would shatter a fragile open cluster, but no one had ever witnessed one.

A major collision can shatter both asteroids into debris that will SLOWLY drift apart to form an asteroid group in separate but similar orbits around the Sun (Science, 23 November 2001, p. 1696).

Evidently, Amalthea is highly porous, perhaps as a result of collisions that repeatedly shattered its rocky interior.

The later study conducted by Captain Diaz de Soria in the 1950s suggests that water did enter from the gun ports of the lower battery, ripped off in the collision with Culloden and shattered by artillery fire, and that the crew failed to obstruct them with temporary contrivances.

Some, however, are pieces of larger, geologically active bodies that have been shattered by collisions.

Readings from the spacecraft, passing 753 miles from Mathilde, suggest the asteroid has a density only slightly higher than water and surface evidence of huge collisions that should have shattered a solid object.

How I Gained It: I was in a head-on collision in 2002, and I shattered my ankle.