asteroid
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That long coexistence changed dramatically 66 million years ago, when an asteroid struck Earth and triggered a global mass extinction.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
His face was covered with old poison burns, gouges, and scar tissue, so it looked like the surface of an asteroid.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 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
A future supply network could move metals from asteroids to Mars while using propellant produced from asteroid resources.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The results point to specific asteroids that could be reached using existing spacecraft technology.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
I know from years of planetarium visits that craters on the moon were caused by asteroids and meteoroids crashing into the lunar surface, especially when the moon was very, very young.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
Vocabulary lists containing asteroid
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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