asteroid
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The Little Prince, who lives on a house-sized asteroid, recounts his travels to different planets and shares solemn wisdom about life’s challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Japan also has experience in bringing back samples from space, including JAXA's unmanned Hayabusa-2 which returned 5.4 grams of rock and dust collected from an asteroid several hundred million kilometres from Earth in 2020.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
JAXA's Hayabusa 2 mission brought material back from asteroid Ryugu, while NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Their findings suggest that the material came from a region near the surface of its parent asteroid, where liquid water evaporated and left behind increasingly concentrated salts.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
But what if the flashes were instead caused by the impact of a small asteroid or a piece of a comet?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
This occurs when the Earth passes through trials of debris from asteroids or comets.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Those samples contain substantial evidence that briny fluids once existed just beneath the surfaces of their parent asteroids.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
While smaller space rocks frequently burn up in Earth's atmosphere, large orbiting rocks like asteroids are rarer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Some asteroids are carbonaceous, meaning they contain carbon and water ice.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
So, too, we would say, the craters we see on the moon are vestiges of past collisions with asteroids.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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