Sentence examples for moving an asteroid from inspiring English sources

Moving an asteroid is a huge idea – never has a celestial object been moved by humans.

A 2012 study estimated that moving an asteroid to the moon could take six to 10 years, pushing the timeline for a human asteroid landing beyond 2021.

While such a mission could help scientists better understand asteroids, or at least the particular asteroid that gets bagged, Bolden said the primary purpose of grabbing and moving an asteroid is to help develop the technologies that would be required to send people to Mars.

To move an asteroid, he says, just change its color.

The plan is to identify, capture, and move an asteroid into orbit around our Moon, where astronauts can reach it to obtain samples.

The strategy, unveiled Friday (Oct . 26, won the 2012 Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition, sponsored by the United Nations Space Generation Advisory Councill.

A recent study at JPL has already shown possible feasibility to move a small asteroid, with a mass of ~10,000 kg, deep into the Earth's gravity well – even to the orbit of the International Space Station.

On 21 September, the Japanese mission Hayabusa2 became the first to land moving rovers on an asteroid.

It is possible that a rapidly moving asteroid could have caused the Chicxulub impact crater, the researchers said, but the fastest-moving objects that have been observed are mostly comets.

It is possible that a rapidly moving asteroid could have caused the Chicxulub impact crater, the researchers said, but the fastest-moving objects that have been observed are mostly comets.

That brings us to comets". Dr Moore's colleague Prof Mukul Sharma, also from Dartmouth College, told BBC News: "You would need some special pleading for an asteroid moving very rapidly - although it is possible.