asteroid
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According to the researchers, an asteroid about 320 meters across striking Deimos at an angle of 45 degrees could have produced the size and shape of the depression now visible near the moon's south pole.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Hera is currently traveling toward its main destination, the asteroid moon Dimorphos.
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
Japan also has experience in bringing back samples from space, including JAXA's unmanned Hayabusa-2 which returned 5.4 grams of rock and dust collected from an asteroid several hundred million kilometres from Earth in 2020.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
She used telescopes to study near-Earth asteroids—those close enough to the edge of the asteroid belt that they could escape and come toward Earth!
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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
This occurs when the Earth passes through trials of debris from asteroids or comets.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Some of them, called M type asteroids, contain large quantities of iron, nickel, and other useful metals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
While smaller space rocks frequently burn up in Earth's atmosphere, large orbiting rocks like asteroids are rarer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
When you aim for the stars, sometimes you run into angry asteroids named Ainsley.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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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