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- Images show thousands of newly-identified asteroids. And there . . . - NPR
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man
- Asteroid - Wikipedia
An asteroid is a minor planet —an object larger than a meteoroid (thus 1 meter or larger) that is neither a planet nor an identified comet —that orbits within the inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids)
- Eyes on Asteroids - Home - NASA JPL
You are looking at a real-time visualization of every known asteroid or comet that is classified as a Near-Earth Object (NEO) With asteroids represented as blue points, and comets as white points, our database is updated daily to give you approximately 41,000 NEOs (and counting)
- Asteroid | Definition, Size, Facts | Britannica
Asteroid, any of a host of small bodies, about 1,000 km (600 miles) or less in diameter, that orbit the Sun primarily between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in a nearly flat ring called the asteroid belt Hundreds of thousands of asteroids are known
- Clemson astrophysicists tell us about asteroids and whether we need to . . .
Asteroids can give scientists key insights into the formation of our solar system and the Milky Way They contain materials that predate the formation of our solar system Earlier this year, a “city killer” asteroid made major headlines for its slim chance of striking Earth in 2032
- UW astronomers spot record-breaking asteroid in Rubin Observatory data
A team led by University of Washington astronomers has discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer
- Asteroids: News, features and articles | Live Science
Discover the rocky objects orbiting our sun with the latest asteroid news, features and articles
- Evidence of ‘Lightning-Fast’ Evolution Found After Dino-Killing . . .
Evidence of ‘Lightning-Fast’ Evolution Found After Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact January 21, 2026 An artist’s interpretation of life and death after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs The three hair-covered forms (left) represent species of plankton found inside the crater made by the impact The geometric form (bottom left) is a species of algae The bones belong to an
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