asteroid
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The researchers propose that the breakup of the parent object that formed the Eulalia asteroid family sent large amounts of debris toward Earth, the Moon, and Mars.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
"These rare events, triggered by large, well-positioned collisions in the main asteroid belt, bombard all inner solar system worlds," Bottke said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
While some of the EAC’s functions are useful, the November elections would go on even if the agency were hit by an asteroid and vaporized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Unlike the black holes created by collapsing stars, these hypothetical objects could range in size from something as small as an asteroid to much larger bodies.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
An asteroid could have hit the planet and wiped out all life, and Annabeth wouldn’t have cared.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Repeated gravitational nudges from Jupiter can gradually destabilize asteroids in this region.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Many scientists believed Silverpit was created by a hypervelocity impact, the term used for collisions involving asteroids or comets traveling at several miles per second.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
The theory of panspermia proposes that life, or the ingredients needed for it, can spread throughout the cosmos aboard asteroids, comets, and other rocky objects.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
It will need that money and multiples more to achieve Mr. Musk’s ambition of colonizing Mars and mining asteroids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Some stars would have no suitable planets—perhaps they would all be giant gas worlds, or tiny asteroids.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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