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an abrupt disastrous failure

a wrecking of a vehicle

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While dusty aftermaths of suspected asteroid collisions have been observed by Spitzer before, this is the first time scientists have collected data before and after a planetary system smashup. The viewing offers a glimpse into the violent process of making rocky planets like ours.
"We need to be receiving much more precise data in order to prevent further collisions," ESA's Jean-Francois Kaufeler said Monday in reference to last week's satellite smashup. The $64 million Space Situational Awareness program will seek to develop international standards for describing and tracking debris, as well as encouraging greater openness in sharing data.
"Some of the bullets will miss each other and others will hit."When protons collide, subatomic wreckage from the smashup will fly into the detectors, leaving a calling-card trace of their identity.Over the ten to 15 years in which will the LHC will operate, masses of data will spew from these collisions and will be closely scrutinised by universities and laboratories around the world.
If a customer has a smashup, he can call us and get a replacement within a couple of days."
Lawson also wrote several movie scripts, including Action in the North Atlantic (1943), Sahara (1943), and Smashup (1947).
A four-vehicle smashup at the EDSA-Ayala tunnel in Makati City caused heavy traffic in the area Tuesday morning.
Teacher dead, 2 hurt in 3-vehicle smashup !-- -- Rey Galupo (The Philippine Star) - May 21, 2019 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines An elementary school teacher died while two others were severely injured after a passenger jeepney slammed into his motorcycle and a van in Sta.
In October 2013, an eight-vehicle smashup also happened at the downhill section of the road and left 20 people dead and 54 others injured.
The smashup left its imprint in light emitted in the aftermath, which the team analyzed to study the properties of the collision.
According to a report in National Geographic News, if these suspicions are confirmed, the object would represent the first time astronomers have witnessed the immediate aftermath of such a cosmic smashup.
smashup were being treated at Sacred Heart Medical Center for injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening, Oregon State Police said.
5 hurt in 3-vehicle smashup !-- -- Robertzon Ramirez (The Philippine Star) - May 1, 2019 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines Five commuters were injured in a three-vehicle collision in Barangay Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati on Monday night.
The mounting pace began around 290 million years ago, and likely coincides with some kind of large cosmic smashup in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, researchers reported in the US journal Science.