asteroid
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"We discovered a clear connection between these distant moons and the early Earth, where high concentrations of hydrogen through asteroid impacts could have created the conditions for life."
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
The Mars encounter also gave the mission team an opportunity to fully test Psyche's scientific instruments before the spacecraft reaches the asteroid.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
One possibility was that the outer rocky planet had once possessed a thick atmosphere that was later blasted away by a collision with a massive asteroid, comet, or another large object.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
NASA’s Amit Kshatriya, the man behind Artemis, on the race with China to reach Mars, the asteroid belt and Jupiter’s moons.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
“What I said. There’s a big contract for it. It must be just the thing for asteroid mining. You have a master robot with six sub-robots under it.—Like your fingers.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Oh, My Stars! A Solstice Sampler
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Elements of the Universe: Aster, Astro ("Star")
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