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The few impact craters on Triton are almost all concentrated in the leading hemisphere — that facing the direction of the orbital motion — with the majority concentrated around the equator between 30 ° and 70 ° longitude, resulting from material swept up from orbit around Neptune.
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In a few years, he had turned himself into a leading authority on this area of functional analysis — to the extent that Dieudonné compares his impact in this field to that of Banach.
Contact, compression, decompression, and the passage of the shock wave all occur within a few tenths of a second for a large impact.
Jupiter's rapid rotation brought the impact sites into view for terrestrial observers a few minutes after the collisions.
A few minutes after the impact fireball was detected, Galileo measured renewed heating, probably due to ejected material falling back onto the planet.
Before the impact, models of Jupiter's atmosphere had indicated that the break-up of the largest fragments would occur at atmospheric pressures of anywhere from 30 kilopascals to a few tens of megapascals ( from 0. 3 to a few hundred bar ), with some predictions that the comet would penetrate a layer of water and create a bluish shroud over that region of Jupiter.
Random thermal collisions of gas atoms may result in a few free electrons and positively-charged gas ions, in a process called impact ionizaton.
However, few of these had a significant impact on the advance of the industry.
His meteoric rise and fall were clearly the stuff of legend, and few if any players, either before or since, have had such an immense impact over so brief a period.
Meanwhile, the New York Film Festival only shows a few films in each year, but it still has big impact in the United States.
Settlers only came to a few colonies in sufficient numbers to have a strong impact.
The IPC system initially had performance problems, so a few strategies were developed to minimize the impact.
The discovery and use of the " useful " metals — copper and bronze at first, then iron a few millennia later — had an enormous impact on human society.
During the attempt, however, the plane crashed into a reclaimed strip mine in Stonycreek Township, near Shanksville in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about southeast of Pittsburgh and northwest of Washington, D. C. A few witnessed the impact from the ground and news agencies began reporting the event within an hour.
Moreover, when the subsequent V-2 rocket blitz began with only a few minutes from launch to impact, the deception was enhanced by providing locations genuinely damaged by bombing, verifiable by aerial reconnaissance, for impacts in central London, but each time-tagged with the time of an earlier impact that had fallen 5 – 8 miles short of central London.
While highly successful in the single charts in the UK, very few of these musicians were able to make a serious impact in the United States ; Bowie was the major exception becoming an international superstar and prompting the adoption of glam styles among acts like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls and Jobriath, often known as " glitter rock " and with a darker lyrical content than their British counterparts.
World Pensions Council ( WPC ) Financial economists have argued that durably low interest rates in most G20 countries will have an adverse impact on the underfunding condition of pension funds as “ without returns that outstrip inflation, pension investors face the real value of their savings declining rather than ratcheting up over the next few years ”
There are relatively few impact craters on Triton.
Triton is geologically active ; its surface is young and has relatively few impact craters.
Sir Michael Atiyah said of Witten, " Although he is definitely a physicist, his command of mathematics is rivaled by few mathematicians ... Time and again he has surprised the mathematical community by a brilliant application of physical insight leading to new and deep mathematical theorems ... he has made a profound impact on contemporary mathematics.
The results of the impact on this type of recovery are too few to make an educational assumption " This research was conducted before Rational Recovery disbanded their meetings in favor of self-recovery treatment.
But the breathtaking beauty pervading his waltzes ... " Pastircek / Hirtenlied ", " Slovenia / Slovenija, odkod lepote tvoje ", " Veter nosi pesem mojo / The wind song ", " Čakala bom " (" I shall wait "), " European Waltz ", " Na svidenje " (" So long "), " On the Bridge ", and " Argentina ", to name just a golden few ... best characterize the profound nature of his impact.
Although a few geologists have argued that it is possibly related to a Precambrian extraterrestrial impact and have compared it to Mare Crisium on the Moon, no credible evidence for such an impact crater has been found by regional magnetic, Bouguer gravity, and geologic studies.
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These range in diameter from a few tens of meters up to about 300 km, and they range in age from recent times ( e. g. the Sikhote-Alin craters in Russia whose creation were witnessed in 1947 ) to more than two billion years, though most are less than 500 million years old because geological processes tend to obliterate older craters.
Out of many proposed craters, relatively few are confirmed.
The craters of the moon have been well preserved through time and were once thought to have been the result of extreme volcanic activity, but instead were formed by meteorites, nearly all of which took place in the first few hundred million years after the Moon formed.
The 40 % of Triton's surface imaged by Voyager revealed blocky outcrops, ridges, troughs, furrows, hollows, plateaus, icy plains and few craters.
Although it has few craters, it is thought that this is the oldest terrain on Triton.
On the trailing hemisphere there is a network of bright swaths on a dark background and few visible craters.
In the last few decades of the twentieth century, a large number of highly modified impact craters began to be identified.
The Wabar craters in Arabia may have been created sometime during the past few hundred years.
The light-colored streaks radiating from Copernicus and a few other large craters turned out to be chains and nets of small craters and debris blasted out in the primary impacts.
Janus is extensively cratered with several craters larger than 30 km but few linear features.
For a few hours leading up to the first quarter, lunar craters near the line separating lit from unlit areas of the moon form a X figure from the dark craters and their lit rims.
Most lunar meteorites are launched from the Moon by impacts making lunar craters of a few kilometers in diameter or less.
Eruptions from the summit craters typically result in a few second-lasting mild energetic bursts emitting ash, incandescent lava fragments and lithic blocks ranging up to a few hundred meters in height.
Most of the northern hemisphere is flat, with few impact craters, and lies below the conventional ‘ zero elevation ’ level.
Considering a smooth stone on a smooth flat road, the two surfaces would be still in contact, but only at a few points ( the bumps do not fit exactly into the craters ).
The areas to the left and at the bottom have few craters and are intersected by lots of sinuous greenish grooves.
The central part of the body is smooth and has only a few craters.
The crater site is one of the few multiple-ringed impact craters on Earth, although they are more common elsewhere in the Solar System.
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He stopped every few minutes and leaned on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each day dragging out with monotonous calm.
He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
`` We know Penny spent some -- and Carmer must have dropped a few dollars getting that load on ''.
A few yards beyond the group of men, a man's nude body lay face down on a patch of thick green dichondra.
A few minutes later the insurance man, a road checker, drove up in the gray coupe with license plates on it from a far-away state.
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.
It recurred in the press conferences: the President's remarks about his running developed a singular tone, one which we find in few statements made by public individuals on such a matter.
Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.
In a few months the Duke was to be the center of a controversy of some significance on the touchy question of the Protestant Succession.
He always kept a few on his personal staff.
The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.
Gun on shoulder, he would march smartly for a few yards, bring his heels together with a click, make a brisk pirouette, skirts flaring, and march back to his point of departure.
There are millions who accept this doctrine, but few indeed are those who accept it so truly that the fate of humanity lies as a weight on their souls night and day.
Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.
Apparently no serious disorders resulted from the celebration, and within a few days, Morgan joined the force of Lafayette who now had command of some 2,000 men at Barren Hill, not far above Philadelphia on the Schuylkill.
He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.
New Jersey folk need not be told of the builder's march to the sea, for in a single generation he has parceled and populated miles of our shoreline and presses on to develop the few open spaces that remain.
But Interior Secretary Udall warns that there is a race on between those who would develop our few surviving open shorelines and those who would save them for the enjoyment of all as public preserves.
Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.
After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.
Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.
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