asteroid
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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
If hesperornithiforms and enantiornithines had plumage that trapped heat less efficiently than feathers found in Neornithes, that difference could have become crucial after the asteroid impact.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Those observations are intended to help researchers evaluate the deflection of asteroids as a potential method to defend Earth against asteroid impacts.
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
After much thought, the Alvarezes concluded that the most plausible explanation–plausible to them, at any rate–was that the Earth had been struck by an asteroid or comet.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
The software is designed to model collisions involving asteroids, comets, and planets.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 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
I know from years of planetarium visits that craters on the moon were caused by asteroids and meteoroids crashing into the lunar surface, especially when the moon was very, very young.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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