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Examples of asteroid in a Sentence
Most asteroids are found between Mars and Jupiter.
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Midway through season 2, the substance hijacked an asteroid and crashed it onto Venus, where the protomolecule began building… something.
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But, perhaps most fittingly, the International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after her.
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And the asteroid is not big enough to send us the way of the dinosaurs.
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And the asteroid is not big enough to send us the way of the dinosaurs.
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The team’s computer simulations suggest that up to 36% of binary stars can eject asteroids.
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And her meteorite studies earned her a similar honor in 1991, when the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid for her.
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Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA, said asteroids the size of 2018 CB do not often approach this close to our planet.
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The main goal of OSIRIS-REx is to return samples from Bennu, an asteroid as big as the Empire State Building.
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Origin and Etymology of asteroid
Definition of asteroid
- asteroid bodies in sporotrichosis
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Kite, for example, suggests that nutrients might come from surprising sources such as asteroid impacts.
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For January’s Quadrantids — named for an extinct constellation Quadrans Muralis in the late 18th century — astronomers believe the parent object is asteroid (196256) 2003 EH1, which may have been a comet seen in Asia about 500 years ago.
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Others prefer the idea of a more sudden mechanism such as a geologic upheaval from planet-scale volcanic eruptions or Earth-shaking asteroid impacts.
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Even an asteroid impact is no match for the resilient, microscopic species.
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In response to several questions, asteroid 2002 AJ129 will safely pass Earth on Feb. 4.
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The aftermath of the asteroid impact is the large scale reason for both.
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Between these paragraphs, the Mail inserts occasional reminders that asteroid 2002 AJ129 will not hit Earth, according to NASA.
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The last significant asteroid event was one that no one saw coming.
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First Known Use of asteroid
1824
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Definition of asteroid for English Language Learners
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: any one of thousands of small planets that circle around the sun
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