asteroid

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A small rocky object that orbits the Sun, typically found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

• Scientists are tracking an asteroid that will pass near Earth next month.
• The dinosaurs may have been wiped out by an asteroid impact.
• Most asteroids are located in the belt between Mars and Jupiter.
• Space agencies are developing technologies to deflect any asteroid whose trajectory poses a collision risk to Earth.
• Mining companies have proposed extracting valuable minerals from an asteroid as a potential source of rare elements needed for electronics.
• Astronomers recently discovered an asteroid whose unusual orbit suggests it may have originated outside our solar system.

Eş anlamlılar: minor planet, planetoid, space rock