asteroid
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A new study shows that, at an incredibly small scale, the building blocks inside the asteroid Bennu are not evenly mixed.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
In a classic episode, Elroy goes to an asteroid on a school field trip.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
"We can't get to the cores of Earth or Mars or Venus, but maybe we can get to the core of an early asteroid."
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
More than two centuries after asteroid 16 Psyche was first identified, scientists are still trying to determine how it formed.
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
Two years later, another, somewhat larger asteroid missed us by just 90,000 miles–the closest pass yet recorded.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
