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
With the debate finally resolved, scientists can now use Silverpit as a valuable natural laboratory for understanding how asteroid impacts affect both Earth and other worlds across the solar system.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
The asteroid formed about 155 million years ago when fragments from a violent collision gradually came together.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
On April 20, 2025, Lucy passed within 650 miles of Donaldjohanson while traveling through the main asteroid belt on its way to a group of Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
“What I said. There’s a big contract for it. It must be just the thing for asteroid mining. You have a master robot with six sub-robots under it.—Like your fingers.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Both asteroids contain magnesium-rich clays, suggesting they experienced much longer periods of water exposure, possibly lasting millions of years while they were still parts of larger parent bodies.
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
New asteroids and distant objects are being discovered all the time as our observing capabilities become more detailed, which should gradually shed more light on what might be out there.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 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
When the solar system is all explored, we will probably have evidence for impact catastrophism on all nine worlds, from Mercury to Pluto, and on all the smaller moons, comets and asteroids.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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