asteroid
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The Little Prince, who lives on a house-sized asteroid, recounts his travels to different planets and shares solemn wisdom about life’s challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Japan also has experience in bringing back samples from space, including JAXA's unmanned Hayabusa-2 which returned 5.4 grams of rock and dust collected from an asteroid several hundred million kilometres from Earth in 2020.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
"The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
However, choosing the correct asteroid would be critical.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Even if every asteroid in the solar system had a name and known orbit, no one could say what perturbations might send any of them hurtling toward us.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
The software is designed to model collisions involving asteroids, comets, and planets.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
This occurs when the Earth passes through trials of debris from asteroids or comets.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The central question is whether spacecraft could reach these asteroids, extract useful materials, and transport them to Mars without consuming so much energy and fuel that the entire effort becomes impractical.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
As of July 2001, twenty-six thousand asteroids had been named and identified–half in just the previous two years.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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