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Asteroid  n.  A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; called also planetoids and minor planets.





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"Asteroid" Quotes from Famous Books



... throughout the Solar System. The Ranthoor market opened easy with little activity. Then a few stocks made fractional gains. Mining dropped fractionally. Martian Irrigation still was unexplainably low, as was Pluto Chemical and Asteroid Mining. ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak
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... with the Allied Observatories on Mount Everest. At eleven P. M., World Standard Time, Professor Boyle observed a dark body in transit across the moon. According to Boyle, a non-luminous and non-reflecting asteroid has crashed into the earth's gravitational field. A dark moon has joined this celestial grouping, and is now swinging in an orbit about the earth. It is this that has disturbed the balance of ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various
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Words linked to "Asteroid" :   Apollo asteroid, angular, minor planet, angulate, star-shaped, Ceres, Chiron, planetoid, Pallas, asteroidal, asteroid belt, Vesta


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