asteroid
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Because so many impact structures appear to date from around the same time, some researchers have proposed that Earth may once have been surrounded by a Saturn-like ring of asteroid debris during the Middle Ordovician.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
But Catlos said the teeth were probably already millions of years old by the time the asteroid struck.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
That places the impact around 100 million years before a major increase in cratering on Earth that researchers have suggested may be connected to collisions within the asteroid belt.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
In particular, the moon's irregular appearance resembles what scientists call a rubble pile asteroid, an object made from many pieces of rock held together relatively loosely by gravity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
So from the point of view of asteroid research the twentieth century was essentially just a long exercise in bookkeeping.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
"In terms of its physical properties, Deimos more closely resembles the so-called rubble-pile asteroids than our Earth's Moon," says Raducan.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
This occurs when the Earth passes through trials of debris from asteroids or comets.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of debris from asteroids or comets - a snowball of frozen rock and gas orbiting the Sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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