Sentence examples for meteorite strike from inspiring English sources

It was North America's first recorded meteorite strike, according to Benjamin Silliman, a Yale professor who studied the event.

The last reported death from a meteorite strike was in 1825, according to a list kept by the International Comet Quarterly scientific journal.

When Europeans started arriving in the Americas, he added, a cascade of events was triggered that was "as Earth-changing as a meteorite strike".

Few seemed to have given the prospect of a meteorite strike much thought; there was no official procedure to draw on.

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Dr McKay, who still does not believe in the giant plumes reported previously, says that there must have been a nearby meteorite strike, and that Curiosity was merely smelling the freshly delivered organic compounds decaying.

In 2009, a 20m blade flew off a turbine in Lincolnshire, prompting theories of meteorite strikes and even UFOs.

Significant meteorite strikes in populated areas are incredibly rare, and only a small number of injuries, let alone deaths, have ever been confirmed.

The process of deformation may result from hydrostatic pressure, shock impact (as produced by a meteorite striking the Earth's surface), or directed tectonic stress.

Other experts have said the fatal damage might have been caused by a small meteorite striking the spacecraft or something else entirely.

When Flowers Vanished By now it is well accepted that the dinosaurs (and lots of other animal species) were wiped out 65 million years ago when a large meteorite struck near what is now the Yucatán region of Mexico.