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Example sentences for: asteroid

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Cerium is named for the asteroid Ceres, both having been discovered the same year (1801).
The asteroid itself is disappointingly undercharacterized, and Bay compensates by turning every frame into a blur of motion.
The NYT has a big illustrated front-page piece on the recent discovery that an asteroid, called "1997 XF 11," is likely to pass within 30,000 miles of Earth (that's eight times closer than the moon) on October 26, 2028.
The FT said that a plan to avert Armageddon has been demanded of the government by an opposition member of parliament named Lembit Opik, whose Estonian grandfather Ernst had an asteroid named after him.
It would be silly to say that we should consume everything we've got just because an asteroid might destroy us, and equally silly to say that we should engage in an orgy of conservation just because economic growth might slow to zero.