asteroid
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He says some of the projections by the stay side are all "doom and gloom", joking that the only possible negative they failed to include is "a large asteroid hitting Canada".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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
If Phobos was instead captured as an asteroid, the Stickney impact could have happened much later, around 2.6 billion years ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
It formed near the Moon's eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, when an asteroid or comet roughly the size of a three- to six-story building struck the surface.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
The shape-shifters put on jet packs and follow the monsters to an asteroid.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Daily Minor Planet project allows volunteers to help search for asteroids and comets that could potentially pose a threat to Earth.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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
Do the comets and asteroids think it inadvisable to impact an inhabited planet?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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