Sentence examples for meteorites from inspiring English sources

It is not just in our minds that meteorites carry the threat of apocalypse or the promise of reawakened childhood wonder.

All the meteorites on display were found in the Atacama desert and you can even touch some of the 4½-billion-year-old rocks.

For Petersen, meteorites are both solid scientific evidence and wondrous objects that have fallen from the heavens, carrying all sorts of resonances – from the scientific to the superstitious, the earthly to the supernatural.

A poetic visual meditation on meteorites, it explores the strange fascination they exert on the imagination, particularly to those that have witnessed them falling to Earth.

Lava flows extend for hundreds of kilometres across its surface.Both planets are pockmarked by craters caused by meteorites.

Regolith is a fine powder formed by a constant rain of small meteorites that breaks up the rocks at the surface.

It may have oceans today only because it was bombarded by comets and meteorites carrying payloads of ice.

Asteroids and meteorites, along with comets, are regarded as left-overs from the raw ingredients of the early solar system, uncooked by any planet-forming processes.

But the Earth is hit by meteorites all the time, so they could be "contamination" from smaller impacts.At the moment, this idea is mere hypothesis.

The cages can trap inert gases such as helium and argon, and when Dr Becker analysed the weights of the helium and argon atoms from her late-Permian fullerenes, she found that the mixture resembled that of gas from meteorites, rather than from the surface of the Earth.Many people were sceptical.

It was possible, too, that life had originally come to Earth from Mars, since it was much easier to make the journey that way than in reverse, and that it had come in the form of bacteria locked up in meteorites like ALH 84001.Almost as a dare, Mr Friedmann suggested that future voyagers might "terraform" Mars by reintroducing as "pioneer organisms" the cyanobacteria he had discovered.