asteroid
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At asteroid Psyche, the instrument will help scientists identify the chemical elements present in the object's surface material.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The distant detections of Phobos and Deimos served as a rehearsal for the mission's future search for small moons around asteroid Psyche.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Following the successful gravity assist, the spacecraft is now traveling directly toward asteroid Psyche, which orbits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Researchers are now examining those observations as they prepare for the spacecraft's arrival at the asteroid Psyche in 2029.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
For example, the dinosaurs may have been exterminated by the impact of an asteroid whose orbit was completely determined by the laws of classical mechanics.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
These frozen environments contain ice that may have trapped material delivered by comets and asteroids billions of years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Many scientists believed Silverpit was created by a hypervelocity impact, the term used for collisions involving asteroids or comets traveling at several miles per second.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
The theory of panspermia proposes that life, or the ingredients needed for it, can spread throughout the cosmos aboard asteroids, comets, and other rocky objects.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
It will need that money and multiples more to achieve Mr. Musk’s ambition of colonizing Mars and mining asteroids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Finding asteroids became a popular activity in the 1800s, and by the end of the century about a thousand were known.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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