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• For days telescopes surveyed the skies to recover the small asteroid.From the entry recover
• The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.From the entry collection
• A massive comet or asteroid appears to have ended the era of the dinosaurs.From the entry massive
• I think they're only a thing after asteroid impacts in the ocean and supermassive underwater volcanoes.2020 September 20, EricFromOuterSpace, GenghisKazoo, “Catastrophic Hurricanes Are the ‘New Normal,’ and They Will Cost Trillions”, in…. From the entry hypercane
• When the asteroid struck, it temporarily carved a hole 60 miles across and 20 miles deep.2019 September 10, Katherine Kornei, “A New Timeline of the Day the Dinosaurs Began to Die Out”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Cenozoic
• She led a recon team into the asteroid field, where she discovered an abandoned freighter.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Carbonaceous Asteroid, Phoenix. From the entry recon
• I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock.2007 September 27, Marc Rayman (interviewee), “NASA's Ion-Drive Asteroid Hunter Lifts Off”, National Public Radio. From the entry world
• Back in the 19-th century the asteroid Ceres was demoted from planetdom.2006 August 29, Manny Feld, “Re: solar system”, in talk.origins (Usenet). From the entry planetdom
• Witt suspected a highly eccentric orbit, enabling this asteroid to travel outside the main belt.2002, Edward C. Blair, Asteroids: Overview, Abstracts, and Bibliography, Nova Publishers, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry main belt
• Urey is opposed to this theory and holds the view that the asteroids are of asteroidian origin.1963, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts - Volume 14, page 341. From the entry asteroidian
• The evidence we have for the KT impactor is more suggestive of asteroids than comets, but it’s not conclusive.2021 February 15, Becky Ferreira, quoting William F. Bottke, “Where Did the Dinosaur-Killing Impactor Come From?”, in The New York Times…. From the entry kt
• Spock and then the Frank Zappa, both asteroids.2015, Meg Funk, Fred and the Snarrfles. From the entry Mr. Spock
• Such collisions may be the mechanism that sends fragments across the asteroid belt toward Earth and the terrestrial planets.2008, O. Richard Norton, Lawrence Chitwood, Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry main belt
• Spock the asteroid was therefore named for Mr.2007, Duncan Steel, chapter 12, in Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar. From the entry Mr. Spock
• In astronomy, chaoslike phenomena include the orbits of asteroids, comets, and satellites, where small disturbances can have dramatic and complex effects.1993, Archie Roy, Oxford illustrated encyclopedia of the universe. From the entry chaoslike
• The comet or asteroid would part the atmosphere like a superprojectile, leaving a hole through the air as wide as itself.1987, Thomas R. McDonough, Space: The Next Twenty-Five Years, Wiley, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry superprojectile
• McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated.2025 January 29, Ashley Strickland, “Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in…. From the entry evaporate
• “Asteroid City,” the latest from Wes Anderson, is filled with the assiduous visuals, mythic faces and charming curiosities that you expect from this singular filmmaker.2023 June 15, Manohla Dargis, “‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry assiduous
• Bottke remains unconvinced that the impactor had a cometary origin, he noted that the asteroid explanation also raised many exciting and unresolved questions.2021 February 15, Becky Ferreira, “Where Did the Dinosaur-Killing Impactor Come From?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry impactor
• Earlier this year, astronomers discovered an oddball asteroid inside the orbit of Venus—the first member of a predicted flock near the Sun, informally called Vatiras.2020 July 3, Nola Redd, “Rock seen inside Venus's orbit could solve puzzle”, in Science, →DOI. From the entry Vatira
• Not an asteroid from outer space.2018, Brian Andrews, Reset: A Thriller, Thomas & Mercer, page 132. From the entry hypervolcanic
• He did not need what it represented: a ship-size heat signature, something out in space beyond the asteroid, just a few kelvins.2017, Craig DeLancey, Evolution Commandos, 496\Perfect Number Press. From the entry hypermissile
• Tyrix, one of the largest objects in Thal's asteroid belt, is a metallic asteroid with an iron-nickel core under a rocky olivine mantle.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tyrix. From the entry protoplanet
• During a scan of the Phoenix system asteroid field, you detected an odd energy reading that Tali determined was quarian in nature.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Carbonaceous Asteroid, Phoenix. From the entry recon
• The comet or asteroid would part the - atmosphere like a superprojectile, leaving a hole through the air as wide as itself.1985, Donald Goldsmith, Nemesis: The Death-Star and Other Theories of Mass Extinction, Walker, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry superprojectile
• A "supercatastrophic" collision might provide sufficient energy and momentum not only to break up an asteroid but to disperse the fragments as well.1981, Andrew Chaikin, Brian O'Leary, J. Kelly Beatty, The New Solar System, Cambridge University Press, Sky Publishing Corporation, page 104. From the entry supercatastrophic
• The researchers found the interior of the asteroid was heterogeneous, meaning some parts were more dense than others—something that could account for the Bennu’s odd bulgelike shape, too.2020 October 16, Jonathan O'Callaghan, “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Seeks to Grab a Piece of Asteroid Bennu”, in Scientific American. From the entry bulgelike
• Within the orbit of Neptune, cis-Neptunian bodies include the terrestrial and large gaseous planets, along with a variety of minor bodies: planetary moons, asteroids, and comets.2018, Michael Perryman, The Exoplanet Handbook, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 684. From the entry cis-Neptunian
• We find that motion near the surface of an irregular asteroid is quite different from the motion near the surface of a homoplastically spheroidal celestial body.2015, Yu Jiang, Hexi Baoyin, Hengnian Li, “Periodic Motion near the Surface of Asteroids”, in Astrophysics and Space Science, volume 2015. From the entry homoplastically
• Vesta is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth and its maximum distance from the Sun is slightly farther than the minimum distance of Ceres from the Sun (2.56AU).2012 September 21, “Dawn Spacecraft Finds Traces of Water on Vesta”, in Sci-Tech Daily. From the entry cererian
• Occultations by atmospheres can be less precise than occultations by symmerical solid bodies, like rings and large asteroids, with a precision on the order of 1.0 mas.1994, C. B. Olkin, J[ames] L[udlow] Elliot, “Occultation Astrometry: Predictions and Post-event Results”, in L. V. Morrison, G. F.…. From the entry occultation
• A "stargate" will appear at the top of the screen, at this point, and you must guide your lander back through the asteroid belt in order to reach it.1983, Pat W. Norris, Lander (instructions in video game). From the entry stargate
• Soon the asteroid Apophis will destroy your palaces, and your armies will graze the grass and die from lack of food and diarrhea, like troops of Xerxes retreating from Ellada.2022, Serhij Abramyk, Enlightening Message, →ISBN. From the entry Ellada
• It is also known that flowering plants sailed majestically through the life-destroying asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period, which did for the dinosaurs and many other animals.2014 June 28, “Double or quits”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8893. From the entry polyploidy

Meaning of asteroid

1. noun A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.
2. noun In the Solar System, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter.
3. noun Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish.

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How do you use asteroid in a sentence?

Asteroid is used as a noun. For example: “For days telescopes surveyed the skies to recover the small asteroid.”

What is a short sentence with asteroid?

“Not an asteroid from outer space.”

What does asteroid mean?

Asteroid means a naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.