asteroid
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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
To reach these conclusions, the researchers modeled the early history of asteroid impacts on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago and soon entered an era of intense asteroid bombardment.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
To better understand this process, the researchers simulated asteroid impacts spanning a range of sizes and speeds.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
Something the size of an asteroid is a brilliant, blinking source of X-rays, visible over interstellar distances.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
"We know we have organic molecules in the solar system -- in asteroids, for example," Sinibaldi said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Those differences may indicate that the parent asteroids formed at different times or in different regions of the solar system before eventually moving into the main asteroid belt.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 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
Musk plans to use the extra money he is raising to expand SpaceX's current activities but also to fund new future ventures: mining asteroids, colonising Mars and putting AI data centres in space.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Nobody knows even approximately how many asteroids there are tumbling through space, but the number is thought to be probably not less than a billion.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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