Frankly, I think a major impactor is probably the most likely. abb1 says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » David Petraeus, Jew-Hater] Reference
The impactor is expected to make a spectacular, football field-sized crater, seven to 15 stories deep, in the speeding comet. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Send Your Name to a Comet!] Reference
The best guess is that the impactor was a comet that measured perhaps a quarter of a mile (half a kilometer) wide. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Community] Reference
Carried aboard the impactor will be a standard mini-CD containing the names of comet, space and other enthusiasts from around the world. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Send Your Name to a Comet!] Reference
NASA's mission to fire a high velocity "impactor" rocket into the moon to search for water is being widely criticized in the blogosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Green Options] Reference
That impactor was estimated to be between 4.4 and 13.5 meters. From Wordnik.com. [Asteroid Explosion over Indonesia | Universe Today] Reference
Some researchers suspect a space impactor may have been involved. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Tsunami | Impact Lab] Reference
In a way – an elastic collision between the impactor and the ejecta. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Crash Plume Visible to Spacecraft But Not Earth Telescopes | Universe Today] Reference
Epoxi – artist concept of Deep Impact now called EPOXI releasing its impactor. From Wordnik.com. [Planet-x.com.au » Epoxi – astronomy, Science Fiction] Reference
In 2005, Deep Impact released a copper impactor that smashed into comet Tempel 1. From Wordnik.com. [Probes Allow Solar System Exploration | Impact Lab] Reference
Those are some of the most dramatic pictures that we saw from the impactor itself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005] Reference
The impactor with mass m and velocity v impacts the Earth with mass M and velocity V. From Wordnik.com. [Giant Impact Near India — Not Mexico — May Have Killed Dinosaurs | Universe Today] Reference
It then continued its playback of data it and the impactor collected during the encounter. From Wordnik.com. [Spacecraft Goes Head to Head With Comet | Impact Lab] Reference
Apollo showed that none of them worked, and a fourth carried the day - the impactor origin. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch] Reference
Some of the last pictures appeared to show the impactor coming in between two mile-wide craters. From Wordnik.com. [Spacecraft Goes Head to Head With Comet | Impact Lab] Reference
The collision between the coffee table-sized impactor and city-sized comet occurred at 1:52 a.m. From Wordnik.com. [NASA Watch: News: July 2005 Archives] Reference
The battery-powered impactor separated from the flyby craft 24 hours before colliding with Tempel 1. From Wordnik.com. [Spacecraft Goes Head to Head With Comet | Impact Lab] Reference
To cause a serious setback to our civilisation, the impactor would have to be around 1.5km wide or larger. From Wordnik.com. [O Fim do Mundo] Reference
The massive strike shattered the lithosphere to a depth of 100 kilometers, embedding the impactor as a mascon. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – January 22-24, 2010 | Universe Today] Reference
And you can see there the debris, the ice and the dust that's kicked up by this explosion as the impactor hits it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005] Reference
The impactor was ferrous, probably itself a remnant of the original body, which went out on an orbit close to this and. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
A new mission, announced by NASA on Monday, aims to smash an SUV-sized impactor straight into the crater in late 2008. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-09] Reference
The closer the earth-like planet has to be to its star to be habitable, the faster a potential impactor would be moving. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Steller Cartography] Reference
Eastern time, July 4, the impactor smashed into the 3-mile by 7-mile comet at a speed of 6.3 miles per second 23,000 mph. From Wordnik.com. [Studying the Comet’s Hidden Secrets | Impact Lab] Reference
The LCROSS impactor the upper stage of a Centaur rocket is much smaller than the S-IVB and thus will make a smaller crater. From Wordnik.com. [LRO Spots Apollo 14 Booster Crash Site on Moon | Universe Today] Reference
On July 4t, it's 820-pound impactor is expected to smash into the comet's nucleus, exposing for the first time what's inside. From Wordnik.com. [Titles and War of the Worlds] Reference
This is animation, we should point out, on the left there from NASA, showing this probe or the impactor heading towards this comet. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005] Reference
The ratio of the bolide diameter and the crater diameter is about what I quoted for a solid impactor on the post about the LCROSS impact. From Wordnik.com. [Giant Impact Near India — Not Mexico — May Have Killed Dinosaurs | Universe Today] Reference
A duplicate of the Medium Resolution Instrument on the impactor will record the vehicle's final moments before it is run over by Tempel 1. From Wordnik.com. [NASA Watch: Space Science News: June 2005 Archives] Reference
The impactor was ferrous, probably itself a remnant of the original body, which went out on an orbit close to this and eventually collided. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
The U.S. impactor will be mounted on the Atlas 5 Centaur upper stage. From Wordnik.com. [Spaceflight Now] Reference
A nuclear weapon has much more energy, but the impactor delivers more momentum. From Wordnik.com. [California Literary Review] Reference
The impactor with four painted tricolors made India the fourth nation to stake claim to a. From Wordnik.com. [Ultrabrown] Reference
In this case, they saw no signs of debris, which allowed them to limit the size of the impactor. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
This mission will be navigating an impactor to look for water ice in the polar region of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference
Two of the important aspects of crater research are the nature and projectile path of the impactor. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
China has added a high-resolution camera to Chang'e 2, and has also added a small surface impactor. From Wordnik.com. [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference
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