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1Asteroids in fiction — Asteroids and asteroid belts are a staple of science fiction stories.Asteroids play several potential roles in science fiction: as places which human beings might colonize; as resources for extracting minerals; as a hazard encountered by… …
2Asteroids (video game) — Infobox VG title=Asteroids caption= developer=Atari Inc. publisher=Atari Inc. distributor= designer=Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released=start date|1979 genre=Multi directional shooter modes=Up to 2 players, alternating turns platforms=Arcade… …
3Trojan asteroids — Two groups of asteroids named for heroes of Greece and Troy in Homer s Iliad. These objects revolve around the Sun at the Lagrangian points (see Joseph Louis Lagrange) in Jupiter s orbit. Achilles, the first, was discovered in 1906. About 650 are …
4List of notable asteroids — Vesta is the brightest and second most massive asteroid. It suffered a crust penetrating impact approximately one billion years ago.[1] The following is a collection of lists of notable asteroids in the Solar System. For the purpo …
5List of asteroids — This is a list of numbered minor planets in sequential order.As of|2008|9|url=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.html there are 192,280 numbered minor planets, and many more not yet numbered. Five minor planets have also been… …
6Colonization of the asteroids — See also: NEO mission The asteroids have long been suggested as possible sites for human colonization. This idea is popular in science fiction. Asteroid mining, a proposed industrial process in which asteroids are mined for valuable materials,… …
7Transition Comets — UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids — was a study involving amateur astronomers and the use of the Hubble Space Telescope. This was one of only six studies involving amateur astronomers that was approved by NASA. [Hubble News Releases Archives… …
8asteroid — asteroidal, adj. /as teuh royd /, n. 1. Also called minor planet. Astron. any 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… …
9Minor planet — Not to be confused with Dwarf planet. A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a dominant planet nor a comet, and thus includes the dwarf planets. The orbital categories of minor planets are the… …
10Amor asteroid — The Amor asteroids are a group of near Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it. Most Amors do cross the orbit of Mars. The two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, may …
