asteroid
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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
In particular, the moon's irregular appearance resembles what scientists call a rubble pile asteroid, an object made from many pieces of rock held together relatively loosely by gravity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 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
Something the size of an asteroid is a brilliant, blinking source of X-rays, visible over interstellar distances.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
As of July 2001, twenty-six thousand asteroids had been named and identified–half in just the previous two years.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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