Rampino thinks that certain tillites were produced by meteor impacts, not glaciers.
兰皮诺认为某些冰碛岩是由流星撞击而产生的，而不是冰川。
Some geoscientists think that this catastrophe involved a meteor striking the earth.
一些地球科学家认为这次灾难与一颗流星撞击地球有关。
Experts today said that despite its spectacular appearances, the meteor was probably only the size of a football.
今天专家们说，尽管看起来这么壮观，这颗流星可能只有一个足球的大小。
They also think they can explain the bright flash seen from the earth earlier this month: it was a meteor, though a small one that didn't get very far.
他们还认为他们可以解释本月早些时候，从地球上看到的明亮闪光，尽管是很小的一颗流星，但没有飞多远。
If we had rock samples to study, we'd know whether these small craters were formed by impacts during the final stages of planetary formation, or if they resulted from later meteor showers.
如果我们有岩石样本用于研究，我们就能知道，这些小陨石坑是在行星形成的最后阶段被撞击形成的，还是后来的流星雨造成的。
Ah, dream not of them, my beloved, the flame of the meteor that goes.
呵，亲爱的，可别梦那流星的闪耀。
The skipping meteor image doesn't exist anywhere in particular in my mind.
它的影像并不存在于我记忆中任何特别的地方。
If it was a meteor, it was a mere tiddler by historic standards - as we'll see.
它是一颗流星所造成的，正如我们将要看到的那样，从历史的标准来看，它仅是小事一桩。
Comets leave a trail of debris behind them that can lead to meteor showers on Earth.
彗星会在经过的地方留下一些碎片，这些碎片可以引起地球上的流星雨现象。
Many scientists believe that meteor strikes act like forest fires, but on a huge scale.
很多科学家们认为，流星撞击就像一场森林大火，只是规模更大而已。
Light pollution has obscured our view of constellations, meteor showers, and even the planets.
光污染使星座、流星雨甚至行星都变得模糊不清，遮蔽了我们的视线。
When a meteor strikes Earth, it creates an explosion that compresses the rock in a circular region.
当流星撞击地球，引起的爆炸会把一个圆形区域里的岩石压碎。
Dr Robert Massey, of the Royal Astronomical Society, said: 'a meteor so widely visible is quite rare.
皇家天文协会的RobertMassey博士说，“一颗流星在这么大范围被看见是很罕见的。”
A more likely cause, Dr. Tapley said, would be a large meteor burning up as it entered the atmosphere.
Tapley博士说，一种可能是一颗大流星在进入大气时燃烧。
So, if a meteor helped to wipe out the dinosaurs, does this mean we should be terrified of the skies today?
那么，既然可能是陨星造成了恐龙的灭绝，今天的我们是否应该对天空心存惧意？
People across the country are likely to spot the Aquarius meteor showers early Wednesday, astronomers forecast.
据我国天文学家预测，6日清晨，如果天色晴朗，我国大部分地区均可目睹到宝瓶座流星雨。
After the dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor strike 65 million years ago, tiny mammals ruled the Earth.
在6千5百万年前恐龙因陨石撞击消失殆尽之际，体型小巧的哺乳动物统治了地球。
Contributing to the beautiful composition, meteor streak and church apex both gesture toward the North Celestial Pole.
流星尾迹和教堂塔尖都指向北极星，真是美不胜收。
Dinosaurs were most likely wiped out by a giant meteor that cooled Earth's temperatures below their threshold for survival.
恐龙的灭绝很可能是由于一颗巨大的流星导致地球温度降到了它们生存的临界值以下。
They think maybe it was a meteor. Some people saw a column of blue light, nearly as bright as the sun, moving north to east.
据说可能是流星造成的，有人声称看到一柱蓝光，几乎像太阳一般明亮，从北向东移动。
Some were even left frightened by the sheer intensity of the display, while many thought they were seeing a rare meteor shower.
有些人纯粹被这光的强度所惊恐，而另一些则认为他们看到了一场罕见的流星雨。
If you dwell in a big, bright city with a lot of lights, your chances of catching a worthwhile meteor image are going to be slim.
如果你生活在璀璨的大都市，那么你拍到流星佳作的机会非常小。
Yet we react-or more accurately, overreact-to Way of Life crises as if these challenges were the same as having a meteor zeroing in on our planet.
然而，我们对于“生活方式”危机的反应，更确切地说是过度反应，就如同一颗流星即将撞击我们的地球。
Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.
下个月好莱坞灾难片《2012》将在影院上映。影片主要描述了地震、流星雨和将一艘航空母舰冲上白宫的海啸。
While most meteorites are natural in origin, on occasion manmade space debris can reenter the atmosphere and also become a meteor or even a meteorite!
尽管大多数陨石都是天然形成的，但也有少数人造天体会落入大气层，变成流星，甚至是“陨石”！
Video shot by a photographer from News 8 TV in Austin showed what appeared to be a meteor-like white fireball blazing across a clear blue sky Sunday morning.
奥斯汀新闻第8频道电视台播放了一位摄影师拍摄的视频，画面显示一个像是流星的白色火球剧烈燃烧着划过星期日清晨的蓝色天空。
This year's Orionid meteor shower will peak between the hours of midnight and dawn on the morning of October 21, according to the Astronomical Society of Guangdong.
据广东天文学会预告，今年猎户座流星雨高峰期将发生在21日午夜及黎明时分。
Like other meteor showers, such as the Perseids and the Orionids, the Leonids happen when Earth plows through a trail of debris left in the wake of a comet orbiting the sun.
类似于英仙座流星雨，猎户座流星雨以及其他流星雨，狮子座流星雨发生于地球在绕太阳公转过程中进入充满彗星碎片的流星体质点溪流之中。
The Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a good show during the early hours of Thursday morning in most parts of China, experts of Foshan Meteorological Institute said.
佛山市气象学会专家表示，13日零时至天亮前，我国大部分地区可观测到英仙座流星雨。
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