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Asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asteroids (from Greek ἀστήρ 'star' and εἶδος 'like, in form') are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called ...

asteroid: Definition from Answers.com
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( ăs ' tə-roid ' ) n. Astronomy . Any of numerous small celestial bodies that revolve around the sun, with orbits lying ...

Space Rock of Love: Asteroid Eros Attracts Skywatchers in Earth ...
In 1931, the close approach of the asteroid Eros allowed professional astronomers to calculate its distance and make that era's most accurate measurement of the solar ...

99942 Apophis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
99942 Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a small probability (up to 2.7% ...

Asteroids l Asteroid facts, pictures and information
Several hundred thousand asteroids have been discovered and given provisional designations so far. Thousands more are discovered each year.

Bus-sized Asteroid Gives Earth Close Shave Friday | Fox News
A small asteroid the size of a city bus zoomed between Earth and the moon's orbit Friday just days after its discovery, but it never posed a threat to our ...

Solar System Exploration: Planets: Asteroids: Overview
This picture of Eros, the first of an asteroid taken from an orbiting spacecraft, is a mosaic of four images obtained by NASA's NEAR mission immediately ...

BBC News - Asteroid makes near-miss fly-by
An asteroid hurtled past the Earth on Friday in something of a cosmic near-miss, making its closest approach at about 1600 GMT. The asteroid, estimated to be about ...

Asteroid - 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools
253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid measuring about 50 km across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the NEAR Shoemaker probe.

Asteroid To Make Closest Approach Since 1975
On Tuesday, January 31, asteroid 433 Eros will come closer to Earth than it has in 37 years, traveling across the night sky in the constellations Leo, Sextans and ...