1) An asteroidean 2) Angular 3) Angulate 4) Armageddon threat 5) Belt type 6) Body between Mars and Jupiter 7) Body in a large belt 8) Celestial body 9) Celestial body in a belt 10) Ceres is the largest 11) Ceres or Eros 12) Ceres or Pallas 13) Mini-planet 14) Miniplanet 15) Minor planet 16) Object in a belt
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1) Angulate 2) Eros 3) Planetoid 4) Starfish
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• (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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Any of the thousands of small rocky objects that orbit around the Sun, most of them between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter (although some pass closer to the Sun that Earth does and others have orbits that take them well beyond Jupiter). The largest asteroid is one called Ceres; it's about as wide as the state of Texas.
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A small, usually irregularly shaped body orbiting the sun, most often at least partially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
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any of a host of rocky small bodies, about 1,000 km (600 miles) or less in diameter, that orbit the Sun primarily between the orbits of Mars and ... [24 related articles]
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Any of the thousands of small bodies that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those of Mars and Jupiter. Also known as a minor planet.
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Asteroid Gaspra taken by NEAR-Shoemaker as it flew by A rocky or metallic object, generally smaller than a planet but bigger than a meteoroid, that orbits the Sun or another star. Asteroids are also called minor planets. The largest asteroid, Ceres, however, has been classified as a dwarf plane...
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An asteroid is a large rock or small planet from the belt that orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter. An asteroid impact with the Earth may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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(as´tәr-oid) star-shaped.
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Large solid mass suspended in outer space that revolves around the sun. Asteroids are larger than meteoroids.
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(Also 'planetoid') These are rocky bodies, the vast majority of which orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. It is thought that there must be around 100,000 in all. The largest asteroid is Ceres, which has a diameter of 579 miles. The smallest detected asteroids have diameters of several hundred feet. Together with comets and meteoroids, asteroids…
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As'ter·oid noun [ Greek ... starlike, starry;
'asth`r star + ... form: confer French
astéroïde . See
Aster .] 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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A small, rocky planetary body orbiting the sun. Asteroids are numbered in the tens of thousands. Most are located between the orbit of Mars and the orbit of Jupiter. Their diameters range downward from 770 km.
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An asteroid is a minor planetary body.
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A small planetary body in orbit around the Sun, larger than a meteoroid but smaller than a planet. Most asteroids can be found in a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The orbits of some asteroids take them close to the Sun, which also takes them across the paths of the planets.
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(Minor Planet) A solid body orbiting the Sun that consists of metal and rock. Most are only a few miles in diameter and are found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, too small and far away to be seen easily in a small telescope. A few venture closer to the Sun and cross Earths orbit.
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An asteriod is a lump of rock which orbits around the sun. (The biggest asteroids are about 100km across, although many are 1km or less across. Asteroids orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
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asteroid Other 'star' units: astro-, sidero-, stell-.
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A small rocky or metallic interplanetary body (bolide). A concentration of these bodies is found in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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star-shaped adjective shaped like a star
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Any of many thousands of small bodies, made of rock and minerals, that orbit the Sun. Most lie in a region called the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and are thought to be fragments left over from the formation of the Solar System. About 100,000 asteroids may exist, but their total mass is only a few hundredths of the mass of ...
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rock, or Minor Planet orbiting the Sun.
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Also calledany of the thousands of small bodies of from 480 miles (775 km) to less than one mile (1.6 km) in diameter that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those of Mars and Jupiter. · an asteroidean; a starfish.
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a small celestial body composed of rock and metal
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