Sentence examples for on asteroid from inspiring English sources

The NEOCam mission would use an infra-red camera to garner information on asteroid size, shape, rotation and composition.

The European Space Agency will host a press conference today to announce that they are a partner on Asteroid Day 2016.

But with well over a hundred known impact craters on Earth alone, spending a few tens of millions of dollars on asteroid defence looks like a sensible insurance policy.

So although the bill asserts certain rights for US citizens, it disavows any national claim – sending a mixed message on asteroid rights, space lawyer Michael Listner told the Guardian.

Decoded, the central theme of the allegory parallels Saint-Exupéry's own wanderlust, his contempt for the consumer age, his meeting with other "roses", and his recognition that he had made a commitment to take care of the unique flower on asteroid B-612, for all her vanity.

Discover magazine estimated that over the past 15 years, the United States had spent less money on asteroid detection "than the production budget of the 1998 asteroid movie 'Armageddon.' " In which Ben Affleck won Liv Tyler but the earth lost Shanghai, much of New York and Bruce Willis.

The US has made big steps towards tracking down and eventually landing on asteroids — and hopes eventually to send humans to land on one and explore it.

There is one caveat — these are estimates based on the limited data we currently have on asteroids.

Regolith development on asteroids also follows the lunar pattern.

But future missions propose to land humans on asteroids and touch down on Mars.

Beyond that, ventures could include mining on asteroids and manufacturing drugs in space.