Sentence examples for plastic asteroid from inspiring English sources
It appears thus to be a possible alternative to (weak) shock deformation that the dislocations were emitted and partially assembled into subgrain boundaries during plastic deformation while parent asteroid of Itokawa underwent thermal metamorphism.
To demonstrate our technique, we investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of rigid-plastic, spinning, prolate asteroids to examine the simultaneous histories of shape and spin rate for rubble piles.
He scoffed at such proposals as attaching a giant magnifying glass to a satellite to focus the sun's rays on an asteroid; wrapping a NEO in plastic, Christo style, to create a solar sail that would waft the danger aside; or placing a huge bazooka on the moon to pummel the intruder with boulders.
We take the asteroid to always be an ellipsoid with an interior modeled as a rigid-plastic, cohesion-less material with a Drucker Prager yield criterion.
— Asteroid Watch (@AsteroidWatch) 1 Oct 13.
(b) In the asteroid belt.
"Except I was the asteroid".
Asteroid encounters are not uncommon.
But now what for the asteroid paranoiac?
