asteroids in English

noun

1

a small rocky body orbiting the sun. Large numbers of these, ranging in size from nearly 600 miles (1,000 km) across (Ceres) to dust particles, are found (as the asteroid belt ) especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, though some have more eccentric orbits, and a few pass close to the earth or enter the atmosphere as meteors.

Ceres was initially considered to be a planet until other asteroids with similar orbits were found.

2

an echinoderm of the class Asteroidea ; a starfish.

The asteroid is preserved with the dorsal surface exposed.

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1. Trojan Asteroids There are other groups of Asteroids outside the asteroid belt

2. Asteroids that are pushed close to the Earth’s orbit are known as Near Earth Asteroids

3. The various Chondrite groups likely originated on separate asteroids or groups of related asteroids.

4. Asteroids are usually irregular shapes

5. Play the classic Asteroids game online

6. Hundreds of thousands of Asteroids are known.

7. Missions to Asteroids Current and Past Missions

8. We can deflect both of these asteroids.

9. Asteroidal, destroy asteroids and alien invaders

10. CB Chondrites have only very minor amounts of phyllosilicates and may come from W-type asteroids (“wet-M” asteroids).

11. Asteroids Asteroids are rocky fragments left over from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago

12. About 30 Asteroids are larger than 200 km

13. The mother of all asteroids screaming towards us.

14. Asteroids hang out in other places, too

15. One major group is the Trojan Asteroids

16. Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun.

17. Asteroids Control the spaceship to destroy Asteroids and flying saucers in this classic arcade multidirectional shooter video game by Atari

18. This is an alphabetically ordered list of some significant Asteroids.

19. Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun

20. There are lots of Asteroids in our solar system

21. More than 300,000 asteroids have been identified and Explanation of Brailling

22. Trojan Asteroids share an orbit with a planet or a moon

23. Now I don't mean actual asteroids made of rock and metal.

24. Buie, an astronomer who discovered the 27 Asteroids, told NASA it was "an honor and a privilege to name these Asteroids in recognition of …

25. More than 300,000 asteroids have been identified and Explanation of Brailles

26. Enjoy the Astrds, it's inspired by the original Atari Asteroids game

27. Scientists think asteroids might have killed off most of the dinosaurs.

28. Earth and a few other planets have Asteroids like this.

29. Many asteroids have escaped the confines of the Asteroid Belt.

30. This is more asteroids, but these are kind of more frozen...

31. Asteroids at Lagrangian point L4 are named after Greek characters (such as 588 Achilles), whilst asteroids at L5 are named after Trojans (such as 884 Priamus).

32. Asteroids is a minimalistic and modern approach to the classic retro masterpiece

33. Here is a list of the 15 largest Asteroids in order of size

34. You’ll also find symbols for the Astrological aspects and some asteroids

35. The majority of the Trojan Asteroids orbit the sun with Jupiter.

36. For example, some Asteroids are found in the orbital path of planets

37. Most Asteroids orbit the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter

38. Asteroids, also known as " minor planets "(Sentencedict.com ), are numerous in the outer space.

39. Although Asteroids orbit the Sun like planets, they are much smaller than planets

40. The asteroids are located at a point equidistant from Jupiter and the Sun.

41. The Short Answer: Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun

42. The asteroids all lie between 2 and 3 astronomical units from the sun.

43. There is enough raw material in the asteroids to support a truly vast population.

44. Although Asteroids orbit the Sun like planets, they are much smaller than planets

45. Optical mining is the term NASA uses to describe extracting materials from asteroids.

46. But clustering of the orbits of comets and asteroids is a demonstrated fact.

47. Asteroids can measure anywhere between a few feet to several hundred miles in diameter

48. You will control your rocket in a deep space surrounded by Asteroids and sneaky aliens

49. The only remaining viable alternative is the heat produced when asteroids collide with one another.

50. Others argue that lopsided bombardment by asteroids and comets explain our Moon's Janus-faced exterior.