asteroid
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Nežič's asteroid is 10.9km across, while that belonging to his colleague Shane Kelly is 15.6km.
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
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
Fireball produced by asteroid 2023 CX1 over Normandy, France, on February 13, 2023.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
“But the moon was supposed to get hit tonight by an asteroid or something. One of my teachers mentioned it. She was going to a meteor party in Central Park to watch.”
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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
Nežič, who works at the planetarium as a tours and outreach officer, said he thought it was "so cool" when he learned that asteroids can be named after people.
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
Those future samples could provide another important piece of the puzzle, helping researchers determine how different regions of the early Solar System exchanged material and ultimately produced the planets, moons, and asteroids we observe today.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The screen was full of floating asteroids and I'd've died in three seconds flat.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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