asteroid
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Researchers estimate that the asteroid was spinning at least ten times faster shortly after it formed.
From Science Daily • Jun. 25, 2026
Such extreme pressure could not have existed inside a small asteroid.
From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026
Missile defense systems, orbital data centers, asteroid mining and Mars colonies: The final frontier beckons with untold riches and glory that Rocket Lab and others are racing to claim.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Last summer, a NASA-funded asteroid impact warning system detected a mysterious object speeding through the solar system.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
But an invisible object weighing ten times more than the Sun and collapsed into a volume the size of an asteroid can only be a black hole.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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