How to Use asteroid in a Sentence

asteroid

1 of 2 noun

• Most asteroids are found between Mars and Jupiter.
• The mission was just a test, and the asteroid posed no threat to Earth.
  — Christian Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
• This is not the first chunk of an asteroid brought back to Earth.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• This gives the asteroid a 99.87% chance of missing Earth.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago changed far more than life on land.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• An asteroid as large as 300 feet wide will fly between Earth and the moon.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
• It’s been a busy time for asteroids in the neighborhood.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2023
• The boulders have about the same mass as 0.1% of the asteroid, and are moving away from the asteroid at about a half-mile per hour.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 21 July 2023
• But Jarvis compared it to an asteroid hitting the Earth.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• The stars don’t move from image to image, but asteroids do.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2023
• The spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu.
  — Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• The near-ghost town is named for its most famous attraction, the crater made by an asteroid.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• Your self-esteem takes a tumble as the moon and the asteroid Chiron align.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
• As the Earth moves through the debris trail of a comet or asteroid on its orbit around the sun, bits of dust and rock collide with our planet.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• Anything as distant as an asteroid can't move fast enough to leave tracks that long.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2023
• The capsule is now falling slowly to the earth with samples from the Bennu asteroid.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2023
• None of the other four asteroids are expected to fly nearly as close to Earth.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• Astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky first detected the asteroid in Hungary on the evening of Feb. 12.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2023
• It’s believed to be the broken fragment of a much larger asteroid.
  — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2023
• Analytics did to the pitcher’s complete game what the asteroid did to the dinosaur.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• The news about the discovery of the world’s largest asteroid impact crater is huge, if true—323-miles-in-diameter huge.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
• None of the other four asteroids is expected to fly nearly as close.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• The scans from the probe found Deimos’s composition doesn’t match D-type(Opens in a new window) asteroids in the asteroid belt.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 25 Apr. 2023
• Giant asteroids collide in the disk and create dust that is warmed by the star and causes excess infrared glow.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 July 2023
• And just like that asteroid that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013, no one saw this one coming.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• The beads likely formed when asteroids slammed into the lunar surface.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 28 Mar. 2023
• The asteroid samples are being kept in a special lab at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• If viewed by the human eye, the asteroid would appear as dark as charcoal, scientists said.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
• The asteroid strike famously triggered the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and about 90 percent of the Earth’s species 66 million years ago.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023
• The soonest the asteroid would potentially impact Earth isn't for more than two decades.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023

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asteroid

2 of 2 adjective

• From Earth, the asteroid pair looks like a single faint dot in the sky.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 23 Nov. 2021
• Of course, the chances that happening from an asteroid strike is slim.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 July 2022
• Among the world’s largest dinosaurs, this massive plant-eater likely saw the asteroid crash that killed it.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Scientists around the world will get the chance to study the asteroid sample and see what secrets are locked inside.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• Nicholson has applied for funding to drill the seabed to confirm the asteroid impact and test its age.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2022
• Per the Times, an airplane ferried the asteroid samples back to Japan on Monday night.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2020
• Of an asteroid impact so large that the night sky glowed incandescent red with molten droplets of rock.
  — Robert M. Thorson, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
• Moving the arm meant losing more asteroid dust, though.
  — Chris Wright, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020
• To fill out Black Beauty’s history, the team first studied both the rock itself and asteroid events on Mars.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2022
• That fits in with the picture that Ryugu formed out of the rubble that was knocked off a much larger asteroid miles in diameter.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• Just after midnight, asteroid hunters can find this rocky body at the highest point in the sky, near the constellation Leo.
  — Cameron Johnson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2020
• After the drama of an asteroid strike and thoughts about aliens this week here comes a far gentler celestial event.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• But don’t pretend that there isn’t an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, because there is.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years.
  — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• More recently, the TV show The Expanse depicts the lives of asteroid miners as an outright form of slavery.
  — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• The probe will then spend almost a year journeying to an asteroid system more than 6.5 million miles away from Earth.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2021
• The Fra Mauro area is made up of rocks ejected and emplaced during the asteroid impact that formed the Imbrium — the second largest, and one of the youngest, impact basins on the Moon.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
• According to Kruk, there is a lot of diversity in the asteroid trails picked up by Hubble.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 16 May 2022
• The last thing anyone needs to think about right now is a catastrophic asteroid impact.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2021
• The acting duo play a pair of low-level astronomers who are tasked with going on a media tour to warn mankind of an asteroid hurtling toward the planet.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2021
• Earth isn’t in any imminent danger of a massive asteroid strike — at least NASA doesn’t know of any large rocks targeting the planet in the next 100 years.
  — Eric Killelea, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Nov. 2021
• Leonard and his asteroid-hunter colleagues tend to be solitary types who don’t mind working solo night shifts and sleeping during the day.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• Waves more than a mile high pushed away from the impact crater near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and scoured the ocean floor thousands of miles away from the asteroid strike.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
• From July 14 to November 8, for instance, the asteroid Pallas will be retrograde in the sign of dreamy Pisces.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 14 July 2021
• These sediments came from the rocks that were melted by the asteroid impact and the soil that had accumulated over the millions of years since.
  — She En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2021
• The asteroid Psyche is an unusual body in the Solar System.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 June 2022
• That's 20 million years before an asteroid impact wiped out three quarters of life on Earth.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
• On the way there, the spacecraft will zip past asteroid Donaldjohanson between Mars and Jupiter.
  — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2021
• As astronomers continue studying the asteroid pair in the coming weeks, the DART team will be able to assess exactly how well that worked.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
• Montúfar also says that this new moon will connect with Neptune and the asteroid Pallas in dreamy Pisces.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 8 July 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024