asteroid
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Those measurements bolstered the idea that the asteroid impact intensified volcanic activity, creating a one-two punch that contributed to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Their spectral properties, along with models of asteroid capture, provide support for that possibility, according to the researchers.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
According to the researchers, an asteroid about 320 meters across striking Deimos at an angle of 45 degrees could have produced the size and shape of the depression now visible near the moon's south pole.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
Most of it went toward the cost of my rig and buying my own asteroid.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
That means asteroids, meteoroids, and other objects can strike the lunar surface directly.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 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
Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of debris from asteroids or comets - a snowball of frozen rock and gas orbiting the Sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are countless asteroids, tiny terrestrial planets.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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