Sentence examples for moving asteroid from inspiring English sources

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.

Other suggestions for moving asteroids include attaching large rocket engines to them; landing cannon-like devices called mass drivers to scoop up and hurl asteroid material away, creating an opposite recoil reaction; or attaching a giant solar sail that would use the pressure of sunlight to move the body slowly.

This was to be achieved by moving asteroids closer to Earth – the preferred first step towards mining asteroids throughout the 1970s.

“We cannot continue to put unlimited trust in beings who can crush coal into diamonds with their bare hands or move asteroids using energy beams,” says Luthor.

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.

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

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

The sun would move the asteroid, one photon at a time.

The book moves from asteroid to desert, from fable and comedy to enigmatic tragedy, in order to make one recurrent point: You can't love roses.

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

Unlike Hollywood however, Russia isn't planning on using a nuclear explosion to move the asteroid, but they haven't revealed exactly what they have planned yet.