asteroid
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As a child growing up in Slovenia in 1999, Dr Rok Nežič couldn't have known that an asteroid that was discovered in New Mexico that year would be named after him almost three decades later.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
To be considered for an asteroid namesake, someone must nominate you, and in Nežič's case, two people put his name forward.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
It is currently "sitting safely out in the asteroid belt and just going around the Sun, just like we are", he explained.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
"The asteroid impact had dramatic consequences for the environment. We have now found the genomic mechanism that connects these ecological upheavals to the subsequent rapid diversification of the ants: transposable elements," explains Lukas Schrader.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Even if every asteroid in the solar system had a name and known orbit, no one could say what perturbations might send any of them hurtling toward us.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
The brand-new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is supposed to complete a groundbreaking “survey” of the universe, the most comprehensive catalog of its galaxies, asteroids, supernovas and black holes ever completed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
"They're both actually quite large as far as these asteroids that are named after people tend to be, because most of the really large ones were discovered first," Nežič said.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
NASA’s La Cañada Flintridge-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory built this snakelike machine with the goal of one day using it to explore difficult-to-reach places on other planets, moons or asteroids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
"We are now wondering whether other asteroids have the same isotopic signature as Bennu and Ryugu," Schönbächler goes on to state.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
They talked about asteroids, volcanoes, and melting ice caps.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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