asteroid
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Because so many impact structures appear to date from around the same time, some researchers have proposed that Earth may once have been surrounded by a Saturn-like ring of asteroid debris during the Middle Ordovician.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
That places the impact around 100 million years before a major increase in cratering on Earth that researchers have suggested may be connected to collisions within the asteroid belt.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Haser says several characteristics of Phobos fit well with the captured asteroid explanation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
An international team led by the University of Bern has found evidence that a single asteroid collision may have dramatically reshaped Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
“I’m only saying,” said Gregory Powell, patiently, as one explaining electronics to an idiot child, “that according to spec, those robots are equipped for asteroid mining without supervision. We’re not supposed to watch them.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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
Those samples contain substantial evidence that briny fluids once existed just beneath the surfaces of their parent asteroids.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 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
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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