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
• Three years ago, his friend Sirota gave him the idea for the Netflix film, which tells the story of how an asteroid hurtling toward Earth is ignored by politicians and society in favor of profit and campaigning.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024