Sentence examples for subsequent collisions from inspiring English sources

But subsequent collisions, "weathering" from space radiation, and ongoing orbital changes have erased most traces of their ancestry.

However, Morbidelli needs two or more subsequent collisions to explain why the satellites orbit in the same direction as the planet's rotation.

A background gas decreases the kinetic energy of the ablated particles and causes gradual changes in their trajectory with subsequent collisions.

Subsequent collisions may not knock the asteroids off kilter if they're mainly made of loose rubble, notes co-author William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

This continent has survived from its long journey across the Paleo-Tethyan Ocean basins and has grown at the edges through magmatism resulting from oceanic lithosphere subduction towards beneath it during its journey and subsequent collisions with the Qiangtang Terrane to the north and with the Indian continent to the south.

The terrestrial embryos grew to about 0.05 Earth masses and ceased accumulating matter about 100,000 years after the formation of the Sun; subsequent collisions and mergers between these planet-sized bodies allowed terrestrial planets to grow to their present sizes (see Terrestrial planets below).

The subsequent collision flattened Thomas but barely fazed Rodgers.

The flowers were covered with broken glass from a subsequent collision with the same tree.

Depending on the original geometry of Earth's lithospheric plates, subduction of oceanic crust beneath continental lithosphere may result in complete consumption of an ocean basin and subsequent collision between two continents.

Release of the displaced hydrogen atoms after the subsequent collision cascade is also assumed.

"I wasn't doing anything stupid, I wasn't cutting red lights or any of that stuff," says the GoCardless CEO, describing the subsequent collision simply as an accident with neither party to blame.