asteroid

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Large asteroid impacts, like the one that contributed to the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago, typically leave a clear crater, such as the one beneath the Yucatan Peninsula.

From Science Daily

Scientists still have much to learn about what small asteroids are made of.

From Science Daily

We get treated to meteor showers when Earth passes through the trails of comets - icy objects which Nasa calls 'cosmic snowballs' - or in rarer cases, including the Geminids, asteroids, which are rocky.

From BBC

Like my favorite pet just died or an asteroid is slowly coming to destroy Earth—even though none of that is happening.

From Literature

After billions of years, two major planetesimal belts remain: the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the Kuiper belt beyond the giant planets.

From Science Daily