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asteroid

[as-tuh-roid] / ˈæs təˌrɔɪd /


NOUN
satellite
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Although Asteroid 2025 TF never posed a threat, flybys like this one highlight how dynamic and watchful our solar neighborhood is.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2025

Next to them is an oversize cover of his new book, “The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of Our Solar System.”

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

Parts of the millennia-old meteor crater that gives Asteroid City its name were also shot in the theaters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024

The Wes Anderson trend saw users post videos which reflected the distinctive style of the US director filmmaker, who is behind films such as The Grand Budapest Hotel and Asteroid City.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2023

And when, as a steel-worker, he had been one of the first settlers in the foundry towns of the Asteroid Belt, he had found life no gentler there.

From The Man Who Staked the Stars by Dye, Charles




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