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
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
"Asteroids are a really interesting challenge in many ways. It's unusual for an asteroid to come out of nowhere," explained Nash.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Any asteroid out there that has our name on it is very likely to have no other.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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
While smaller space rocks frequently burn up in Earth's atmosphere, large orbiting rocks like asteroids are rarer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The results point to specific asteroids that could be reached using existing spacecraft technology.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
They pay almost no attention to all the moons and planets, asteroids and comets, quasars and pulsars, exploding galaxies, symbiotic stars, cataclysmic variables and X-ray sources that have been discovered since Ptolemy’s time.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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