Sentence examples for incoming asteroid from inspiring English sources

The study doesn't rule out using projectiles to destroy an incoming asteroid, Dr. El Mir said.

Ultimately, the choice between deflection and destruction largely depends on how quickly an incoming asteroid is spotted.

"Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," the fireball-laden 1998 movies about, respectively, an incoming asteroid and an incoming comet, were seen by well over a hundred million….

"Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," the fireball-laden 1998 movies about, respectively, an incoming asteroid and an incoming comet, were seen by well over a hundred million filmgoers.

It seems absurd that we should have to passively wait for the end; surely human ingenuity can figure out a way to intercept an incoming asteroid.

The option to lob nuclear warheads at an incoming asteroid is appealing to Hollywood, but less so to many scientists, including May, who has a PhD in astrophysics.

No. Incoming asteroids and meteoroids can come from any direction.

"The infrastructure that helps us mine asteroids could help us to divert any incoming asteroids too," Crawford said.

Several have announced plans to create state-of-the-art detection systems to give warning of incoming asteroids and meteoroids.

Even so, one way or the other, many more potential incoming asteroids will be identified in the next decade, astronomers say.

The first demonstration was an Asteroids game, in which you're supposed to blow up incoming asteroids just by looking at them.