Sentence examples for distant asteroid from inspiring English sources
"The Little Prince" is the enduring story of a young boy from a distant asteroid who, through his travels, discovers what is important in life.
The aim is to see how the human body will bear up on future voyages to a distant asteroid or Mars, which might last several months.
The little prince is from a distant asteroid, no bigger than a house, and has been moved by the beauty of a rose to travel the universe in search of the important things in life.
Most are extremely small, but the Centaur object called Chiron originally classified as a distant asteroid but now known to show characteristics of a comet has a diameter estimated to be about 200 km (125 miles).
Everyone knows the basic bones of the story: an aviator, downed in the desert and facing long odds of survival, encounters a strange young person, neither man nor really boy, who, it emerges over time, has travelled from his solitary home on a distant asteroid, where he lives alone with a single rose.
In 2025, NASA is planning to fly a robot to a distant asteroid, grab ahold of a big chunk, and tow the piece back into an orbit around the moon, where it could be picked up.
Computer programs sift the images to search for objects that move faster than distant asteroids but slower than satellites.
Being assisted by the earth's gravity, the accompanying flight with asteroids or the exploration of more distant asteroids can be realized with a lower energy.
By bouncing radio waves off the dish and into the sky, the researchers can determine the shape of distant asteroids and planets in much the same way that a radar can identify planes.
Initial results include the determination of the geometric albedos of a number of Kuiper Belt objects and Centaurs from observations of their flux densities at 24 and 70 μm, and the detection of emission bands in the spectra of several distant asteroids (Trojans) around 10 and 25 μm.
Instead, he proposed to rely on commercial companies to carry astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station orbit and called on NASA to develop "game-changing" technologies to make travel to more distant destinations — asteroids and eventually Mars — cheaper and faster.
