asteroid
Example Sentences
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Near the town of Interior: Parts of Badlands National Park depict the surface of an asteroid in “Armageddon,” starring Bruce Willis.
Its presence in asteroids and comets supports the idea that some of the raw materials for life were created in space and later delivered to Earth.
From Science Daily
Ever since the Moon formed, asteroid strikes have played the leading role in shaping its surface.
From Science Daily
United’s chief financial officer this week likened the industry’s 2025 to being hit with multiple asteroids.
Through no fault of our own, we might be hit by a planet-sterilizing asteroid or a civilization-threatening eruption of solar flares or radiation—long before our planet is inevitably swallowed up by the sun.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
