How To Use Asteroid In A Sentence

Spacewatch discovers hundreds of new kilometer-sized belt asteroids with every observing run.
Spacewatch has been discovering as many as 20, 000 new belt asteroids per year.
Asteroid-sourced raw materials will enable and catalyze the development of an Earth-Moon space economy and humankind's expansion into the solar system.
So to neglect the problem means that we are vulnerable to asteroid collisions.
By detecting how far apart the partners are and how rapidly they orbit each other, scientists can determine the mass, volume, and composition of the binary asteroids.

Construction began with the assembly of a cylindrical structure deeply embedded in the center of the flat side of the asteroid.
Well, actually, in the City it was usually raining, or hailing, or giant-asteroiding, but that's beside the point.
A meteoroid is matter revolving around the sun or any object in interplanetary space that is too small to be called an asteroid or a comet. Cosmic Projectiles
A meteoroid is matter revolving around the sun or any object in interplanetary space that is too small to be called an asteroid or a comet. Cosmic Projectiles
Many of those parts consist of stony-iron materials known as asteroids and many of these rocky bodies have yet to be discovered and could impact with Earth at any time. Earth Large | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
The effects of comet and asteroid impacts are potentially damaging to life in general, and to human civilization in particular.
Within the main belt are several distinct orbital families of large asteroids, each family named for its most prominent member.
Comets differ from asteroids in composition in that comets contain abundant water ice, and possibly other ices as well.
Chamomile contains natural anti-inflammatories including apigenin, which is similar in action to that of non asteroidal anti-inflammatories NSAIDS. Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible
We know asteroids have hit earth before. The Sun
If even a small asteroid hits the ocean again in our lives we could see one a klick high. Man made global warming? No way!
We do it now on a small scale to bring the rocks into Earth orbit from the asteroid belt.
We may as well define the terms "meteoroid" and "asteroid" as well. Postbulletin.com Local News
An elaborate system of spectral classes has been established by a persistent cadre of asteroid observers.
That means no posting here for a day or two (unless something important happens like NASA announces an asteroid is heading toward earth). Friends
Once an asteroid drifts into either of those regions, it's hard for it to get out.
Add black holes and photographs of asteroidal moons around Jupiter, and our world seems increasingly expansive.
Sixty-five million years ago, a collision with an asteroid is believed to have caused a global die-off that included all dinosaurs.
Until recently we simply did not know enough about asteroids to worry. Times, Sunday Times
Like the asteroids, hundreds more objects were later discovered in the outer solar system, with orbits similar to that of Pluto, signaling the existence of a theretofore uncharted reservoir called the Kuiper belt.
Their utility in servicing traffic from Earth to the asteroid belt is, however, dubious.
Comets differ from asteroids in composition in that comets contain abundant water ice, and possibly other ices as well.
In 1908, an asteroid or comet about 60 metres long exploded over Siberia with the force of 600 times the Hiroshima bomb, reducing a 40-km wide patch of forest to matchwood.
All our intellectual snobbery is reserved for books; when it comes to the cinematic experience, we demand constant explosions, post-apocalyptic scenarios, lots of aliens/robots/asteroids, and/or large-scale natural disasters (with occasional exceptions made for arty French films, obvs). Archive 2009-12-01
Whatever it might be, asteroid or aerolite or aerial monster, it had reappeared in such a way that its dimensions and shape could be much better appreciated, first in Canada, over the country between Robur the Conqueror
This makes it larger than the asteroid that collided with the Earth 66 million years ago and is widely blamed for the demise of the dinosaurs. Times, Sunday Times
Alongside the Flea's concerns about global colding and fascist medievalism is the gnawing anxiety we are all going to be pasted by an asteroid.
Eerily empty travel zones are full of ice, gas, derelicts and asteroids of various types and colors.
For operations in the region of space from Earth out to the asteroid belt, we need only extract water.
An asteroid tears through space heading towards the fourth planet from the sun: Mars.
Virtually all extraxial body wall in asteroids is of the perforate variety, since it includes body openings such as papular pores, hydropores in the madreporite, gonopores, and the anus.
Within the main belt are several distinct orbital families of large asteroids, each family named for its most prominent member.
THE Earth narrowly escaped a cosmic disaster yesterday when an asteroid the size of a bungalow flew past. The Sun
The report of the review board concludes unequivocally that the accident was caused by a high-altitude aerial explosion of an asteroidal body.
Originally classified as an asteroid, Chiron now appears to be icy - with a tail like a comet.
In our own solar system, asteroids have collided with Earth, the moon and other planets.
There are vast numbers of comets in the solar system, more than there are asteroids, but most lie out of sight beyond Pluto.
It has been suggested that impacts with comets and asteroids provided Earth with much of its water.
The planet must have been hit by an asteroid or a comet. The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
The asteroids are tiny worlds that should have clumped together to form another major planet.
Eye-witness accounts were n accord with a large meteoroid/small asteroid entry, with a body passing overhead accompanied by a terrific roar (presumably electrophonic effects), later concussions, and the sky being lit up like daylight. Signs of the Times
We have just discussed some of the positive benefits of planetary impact by comets and asteroids.
For example, Vesta, the fourth-largest asteroid, reflects light in a unique way: some 50 meteorites match it closely.
The age of the carbonates can be clearly determined, and some very old ones had been found on certain asteroids and meteorites.
There is more chance of a freak storm or asteroid hitting the south coast of England.
The collection also includes images of asteroids, comets and moons. Times, Sunday Times
There is an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth.
I could explain why it was gravitational synchrony that caused certain asteroids to be flung out of the asteroid belt and ultimately to strike our planet, probably extinguishing the dinosaurs and many other creatures.
Comets and carbonaceous asteroids of the appropriate energy disrupt too high, whereas typical iron objects reach and crater the terrestrial surface.
Therefore a carbonaceous asteroid, although unlikely, can not be ruled out as an explanation of the Tunguska event.
After a number of passes around the Sun the comet becomes largely or completely de-iced and so resembles an asteroid.
This sounds like science fiction, but the evidence of large asteroid impacts in our history is well established. The Sun
Both were rocks, the outermost with two moonlets and a small cloud of large asteroids, the innermost with none.
It shows they did not spread after an asteroid strike killed off dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The Sun
I hope they burn in expletive, or get hit by an asteroid. Tranquility Node to Colbert Treadmill - NASA Watch
The acceleration by Earth's gravity acts on asteroids falling through the atmosphere.
Second, that the film-makers saw fit to jazz up the original story with the search for a giant radioactive asteroid guarded by monkey warriors. Times, Sunday Times
This suggests that the first material space product will be asteroidal water. Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch
In this shower the meteors appear to emanate from a point in the constellation of Gemini, hence the name Geminid and are associated with the asteroid Phaethon, suspected to be an extinct comet. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Almost 1,000 small asteroids crossing our orbit are now known, 300 of them found last year alone.
Bombardment by asteroids and comets is an extraterrestrial process that may release huge quantities of water.
After obtaining the images, she used astrometric software to determine the coordinates of the target asteroid's apparent position in each image.
It takes four years to loop around the Sun, although it has a very odd, almost chaotic spin quite unseen in any other asteroid.
Strike an asteroid with a spacecraft to push it aside. Times, Sunday Times
Almost all of the moving objects seen are slow-moving belt asteroids, out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
The trans-Neptunian objects are members of the solar system like the planets and asteroids, but are too small and distant to have been detected until very recently. More on the "10th Planet"
I have a friend who turned me on to them (Moby Grape) claiming they were some kind of brilliant asteroidal blend of acid-rock and heavy metal, as well as the inspiration for Husker Du, Nine Inch Nails, and God knows who else. Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier vs Sullivan
But the circumstances of the asteroids differ from those we have studied on the Moon.
Rather, they are produced by bits of dusty debris shed by orbiting comets and asteroids.
According to the report, targeting an asteroid next would advance capabilities to spend long periods in space, while providing astronauts more opportunities for "extravehicular activity" and "simulation of Mars missions. Space Explorers Divided on Next Destination
It's easy enough to gauge an asteroid's longitude and latitude (ascension and declination in astro-speak), but figuring out its current celestial position is tricky.
In fact with appropriate advancements in propulsion and life support technology, it is reasonable to consider extending the approach to missions into the main asteroid belt and destinations in the outer solar system. Griffin Beg-a-thon Update - NASA Watch
There are several other spherical Kuiper Belt Objects that should also be considered planets–Haumea, Makemake, and Eris–as well as Ceres in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Readings, signings, and other events vaguely literary for Monday, February 23, 2009 | Seattle Metblogs
The fact that the moons move in a circular prograde orbit, close to the asteroid's equatorial plane, also lends support to this scenario.
The asteroid belt is broadly zoned into bands of different classes of asteroids.
So many took part in these singular experiments, which assumed rather the appearance of outdoor sports than of scientific demonstrations, that in a short time we had provided the asteroid with a very large number of little moons, or satellites, of gold, which revolved around it in orbits of various degrees of ellipticity, taking, on the average, about three-quarters of an hour to complete a circuit. Edison's Conquest of Mars
The explanation for the 'asteroid' is a rather interesting SF-nal idea, but Roberts doesn't really go anywhere with it, he leaves it hanging. REVIEW: Splinter by Adam Roberts
The Early Earth, scientists believe, was subjected to a bombardment by comets and asteroids, and heated to such a degree that its primordial oceans evaporated.
The very asteroids that present the greatest danger to us are also the most accessible bodies in the solar system.
It took a giant asteroid from outer space to wipe them out. The Sun
Some explanations for extinctions and evolution include strikes by asteroids or comets.
Asteroids have more elongated or egg-shaped orbits bringing some of them onto paths which cross the Earth's orbit.
Then decide that space industrialization is worthwhile with the utilization of material from the moon and asteroids while simultaneously developing large space based power systems. I, for one, want to welcome our robotic overlords ... - NASA Watch
One day, we will have to move a comet or asteroid out of harm's way. The Sun
Dinosaurs may not have been killed off by asteroid impact dust blocking out sunlight, a geologist says.
Studies of the spectrum of sunlight reflected from these asteroids have given us useful information on the minerals present in them.
The collection also includes images of asteroids, comets and moons. Times, Sunday Times
The asteroid appears to be a massive carbonaceous chondrite. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
As he inched the jeep forward, Jim could see that the asteroid debris in this area was disturbed.
Most of the known asteroids orbit the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Both comets and asteroids are the left-over building blocks of the planets in our solar system.
These results affect assessments of the hazard posed by impacts of small comets and asteroids.
It might be that some massive network of communications, or some shield against asteroidal impact, or some huge astroengineering project that we can't even begin to conceive of, could generate signals at radio or optical frequencies that a determined program of searching might detect. Jill Tarter's call to join the SETI search
The possession of an odontophore internal to the mouth angle ossicles can only be interpreted as an apomorphy of crown asteroids.
large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt
When the asteroid hit, it was vaporized by the extreme energy of the impact.
Our star system is chock full of asteroids and comets, in every conceivable orbit and location.
As a result, the ground is littered with craters from asteroid impacts.
Could this be NASA's secret asteroid-destruction plan?
Rosetta will leave the benign environment of near-Earth space to the dark, frigid regions beyond the asteroid belt.
Mosander suggested the name of cerium for the element in honor of the asteroid Ceres that had been discovered in 1801.
But some, including Eros, wander out of the asteroid belt and into the inner solar system during each orbit.
Real Science: New radar observations have revealed that a near-Earth asteroid is actually three rocks. SF Tidbits for 8/8/09
Asteroid brightnesses change every few hours as they spin, first brightening when they are broadside to us and fading when end-on.
But we have so far concentrated exclusively on the small minority of asteroids that have orbits bringing them close to Earth.
Both Toutatis and Castalia appear to be contact binaries: twin asteroids in contact with each other.
In many ways asteroids and comets are likely to offer more varied and abundant natural resources than the Moon.
Previously, it was thought that any asteroid or comet collision would leave strong evidence of the element iridium, the signal found in the sedimentary layer from the time of the dinosaur extinction.
Its orbit is so eccentric, however, that the discoverers suggested it should be considered a wandering asteroid rather than a true planet.
Asteroid-sourced raw materials will enable and catalyze the development of an Earth-Moon space economy and humankind's expansion into the solar system.
Extraction of helium-3 from the surfaces of asteroids is not likely to compare with that from the Moon.
These two kingdoms exist among other small kingdoms, republics and protectorates all of which were created when the great Empire collapsed because of catastrophic asteroid impacts on the planet.
In asteroids, the ambulacrals arch to form a deep ambulacral groove.
Then, as the asteroid shot past the Moon toward the Earth, he would generate a 200,000 kilometer wide space-time distortion that would cause the asteroid to whip around the centerline of the newly formed gravity well. 365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Scientists speculate that a giant asteroid hit Earth millions of years ago.
This sounds like science fiction, but the evidence of large asteroid impacts in our history is well established. The Sun
Nothing lasts forever, which is why we have to get out of here someday before the Earth is "gardened" by a giant asteroid or the swelling Sun. Local News from Tuscaloosa News
Some small moons orbiting Jupiter, as well as Phobos and Deimos, may have originally been asteroids captured into orbit by the gravity of Mars and Jupiter.
The easiest explanation of crater duplicity is that the impacting body was an asteroid with a close satellite.
The narrow confines of the inner solar system seem claustrophobic compared to the asteroid belt.
One day, we will have to move a comet or asteroid out of harm's way. The Sun
Rather, they are produced by bits of dusty debris shed by orbiting comets and asteroids.
It is an achondrite - a basalt - with a composition that suggest an asteroid from the inner asteroid belt. Scientific Blogging
But some, including Eros, wander out of the asteroid belt and into the inner solar system during each orbit.
Comets and asteroids also contribute to the near-Earth space environment.
However, typing in "lento" seems to make the asteroids speed drop dramatically, giving you time to move around safely. The Lost Blog
To top it all off, last week I was told another asteroid may be named after me. Times, Sunday Times
The agency says there is no need at present to dispatch a radio transponder to the asteroid, but adds that it will be keeping a close eye on the rock's progress through the solar system.
Sixty-five million years ago an asteroid struck the Earth with devastating environmental effect.
Not only that, but these rules add three more planets to the roster: Ceres (up until now considered a lowly asteroid), Charon (Pluto's moon), and the prosaically-named UB313 (an iceball slightly bigger than Pluto and chillingly even farther from the Sun). Phil Plait: Pluto to Officially Become a Planet-- and Now we have 12!
A swarm of mirrors flying in formation in space are the best defence against an asteroid hitting Earth, a study has concluded. Times, Sunday Times
In other recent asteroid collision news, the odds of a cataclysm caused by a asteroid striking the Earth have just been lowered.
Asteroids, also known as " minor planets ", are numerous in the outer space.
Worryingly, there seems to be some evidence that these asteroids were sent here by unknown intelligences.
There is no need to worry about this asteroid due to destroy planet Earth in 2019.
The importance of Spacewatch and other asteroid search programs becomes more evident as we learn more about the impact hazard.
The number of trips that can be expected for a spacecraft that transports water back from an asteroid is difficult to estimate.
The world was said to have narrowly missed a global catastrophe on Tuesday when an asteroid skimmed past. Times, Sunday Times
The dinosaurs, they say, were killed not by a lone asteroid strike but by the quadruple whammy of global climate change, massive volcanism, and not one but two gigantic collisions.
Why is the asteroid belt split into a layer of rock and ice asteroids? Times, Sunday Times
The planet must have been hit by an asteroid or a comet. The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
Phobos and Deimos are small, irregularly shaped bodies, generally similar to carbonaceous asteroids in color, reflectivity, and density.
Unlike the classical planets, which telescopes revealed as little disks, both these bodies appeared as mere pinpricks of light. English astronomer William Herschel proposed naming them "asteroids.
Most of the larger asteroids and comets are also in stable orbits around the sun.
Flannery sees this sequence over and over again, from the original resumption of life after the asteroid, through various migrations after other cataclysmic changes, to the successive waves of humans.
When the asteroid hit, it was vaporized by the extreme energy of the impact.
They discover comets, asteroids, quasars, pulsars, supernovae, planets orbiting other stars, and galaxies at the edge of the universe, but none have ever claimed to have discovered a UFO.
I want to cover the asteroid belt, comets, dwarf planets particularly TNOs or Trans-Neptunian Objects and interplanetary dust. Small Bodies in the Solar System
The not-so-romantically named (101955) 1999 RQ36 -- discovered in 1999 -- measures approximately 510 meters in diameter and is classified as an Apollo asteroid.
Almost everything that could have gone wrong did: A huge bolide, or asteroid, struck Earth.
The Father General and the asteroid and the plane and all these people working on this crazy idea.
We have interpreted it as a synapomorphy for asteroids, ophiuroids, echinoids, and holothuroids, to the exclusion of the crinoids.
The main advantage is that the propulsive energies required to go to many destinations within the inner solar system, such as Mars orbit, Lagrange points, near Earth asteroids and even Venus orbit, are quite similar. Griffin Beg-a-thon Update - NASA Watch
What is to stop an asteroid ... by Daniel Geery on Sunday, Feb 8, 2009 at 9: 33: 33 PM your worried about an astroid?????? Bill Gates: The Market does not drive... Governments to do the Right Things...
Now, if you still want to panic, you have all sorts of lunatics who'll be glad to take you as an acolyte in hopes that you'll be taken aboard the evacuation saucers when the planet is blasted into asteroidal debris. Month-end inventory (Jack Bog's Blog)
For example, the Hilda asteroids circle the Sun three times for every two revolutions of Jupiter.
A valuable clue to the problem of resupply of asteroids came to scientists' attention in a strange way.
One of the bestknown incidents was in 1908 when a small asteroid exploded above Siberia with the force of a nuclear bomb. Times, Sunday Times
We might instead settle worlds without life, such as Earth's Moon or the asteroids.
But we have so far concentrated exclusively on the small minority of asteroids that have orbits bringing them close to Earth.
Sciorra plays a Colorado astronomer who discovers that an approaching comet has dislodged several asteroids, propelling them toward Earth.
Now, building a far future (post ALTAST) telescope out of asteroidal material and then taking it to L2, that's a nice idea. Last Visit To Hubble - NASA Watch
These scientists also study the natural satellites of other planets as well as asteroids and comets.
Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. Mark Twain
Any rocks - like asteroids, or bits of other planets blown into space by volcanoes - are more likely to hit us than the moon.
All but one of these orbit in the asteroid belt, safely beyond the orbit of Mars.
Direct hits of asteroids that size are believed to not always make it to earth but instead explode in the atmosphere.
For the rest of this week, asteroid Vesta is within 3 degrees lower left of Mu Virginis.
Some explanations for extinctions and evolution include strikes by asteroids or comets.
Now an expert team of astronauts and space scientists has blueprinted a safety strategy for Earth: an asteroid tugboat.
It's just that you can't keep quiet about things like asteroid impacts.
Such an age estimate is not necessarily undermined by the possibility of eolian deposition of diatoms or by delivery of diatoms in clasts of sediment ejected from an asteroid impact in the Southern Ocean.
Like earth, Mars is a terrestrial planet quite unlike the spectacularly strange gas giants that lie beyond the ‘Red Planet’ and the Asteroid Belt.
Most Asteroidea are predators or scavengers, everting their stomach (called a cardiac stomach), which secretes digestive enzymes on their prey.
The expansion of human civilization into space is feasible because of the availability of vast asteroidal and planetary resources.
These could be particulary useful if oxygen and possibly hydrogen could be mined from the moon or the moons of Mars or from the asteroids. Things We Used To Do - NASA Watch
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a picture of starlit asteroidal and cometary debris encircling the yellow dwarf star HD 107146.
Many modern asteroids with similar large disks are feeding generalises living on unconsolidated substrates.
That famous geologist suggested that large asteroidal objects hit the Moon, forming its craters.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a picture of starlit asteroidal and cometary debris encircling the yellow dwarf star HD 107146.
With their one taste-organ orifice, they consume books with a sound that, if you're not born there, takes some getting used to -- and they consume so many books so fast, that * ian authors must imbibe inspiration in some way inhumanly possible as they work without rest, coffee or praise -- for on asteroid * there is an inverse of the Earth ratio of fiction writers to readers. MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
There is no record of any human being killed by a comet or asteroid-but a large one could destroy civilisation.
Almost all meteorites are collisional fragments of asteroids, and can be dated radiometrically to about 4.6 billion years, which represents the birth of the Solar System.
These clumps of rock are known as meteors and asteroids, and the name given to icy loose formations of debris is a comet.
Phobos and Deimos are small, irregularly shaped bodies, generally similar to carbonaceous asteroids in color, reflectivity, and density.
The main advantage is that the propulsive energies required to go to many destinations within the inner solar system, such as Mars orbit, Lagrange points, near Earth asteroids, and even Venus orbit, are quite similar. Leroy Chiao Seeks Your Input - NASA Watch
We'll also find out about small mammals called ‘solenodons’ that date back to the age of dinosaurs - and could have lived through the asteroid impact that killed the huge reptiles.
What happens when we cross the asteroid belt area, when we go out toward Jupiter?
The effects of comet and asteroid impacts are potentially damaging to life in general, and to human civilization in particular.
Through the high-powered telescope, they could see that the asteroid was very irregular, and turning slowly end over end.
From the crusts of differentiated asteroids and planets come the meteorites we call achondrites.
For scientists, the chance of obtaining chunks of a carbonaceous asteroid is exciting. Times, Sunday Times
Fragments of asteroids and comets pervade interplanetary space.
The outer half of the belt is dominated by the C-type asteroids, very dark materials that closely resemble carbonaceous meteorites.
The meteor display, known as the Geminid meteor shower because it appears to radiate from near the star Castor in the constellation Gemini, is thought to be the result of debris cast off from an asteroid-like object called 3200 Phaeton. News Channel 9: Local News

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