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Synonyms for asteroid
ˈæs təˌrɔɪdas·ter·oid

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Princeton's WordNet2.5 / 11 votes

  1. asteroidadjective

    any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)

    Antonyms:
    rounded

  2. asteroid, star-shapedadjective

    shaped like a star

    Synonyms:
    star-shaped

    Antonyms:
    rounded

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. asteroidnoun

    Synonyms:
    small planet

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "asteroid":

    asteroids, meteor

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ASTEROID

    Synonyms:
    A Study To Evaluate the Effect of Rosuvastatin on Intravascular Ultrasound-Derived Coronary Atheroma Burden

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  1. Dante Lauretta:

    Water probably did circulate through the interior of the asteroid, like a hydrothermal system on Earth, and altered the originally anhydrous rocky material, forming these clays.

  2. William Bottke:

    In a sense, the asteroid belt has been an eyewitness to multiple 'drive-by shootings' from the earliest time in solar system history, by reading the traces left behind, we can use asteroid samplesto tell us who did it, when they did it and how they did it.

  3. Felipe Alves:

    We see two compact sources that we interpret as circumstellar disks around the two young stars, the size of each of these disks is similar to the asteroid belt in our Solar System and the separation between them is 28 times the distance between the Sun and the Earth.

  4. Flaviane Venditti:

    The radar measurements allow us to know more precisely where the asteroid will be in the future, including its future close approaches to Earth, in 2079, asteroid 1998 OR2 will pass Earth about 3.5 times closer than it will this year, so it is important to know its orbit precisely.

  5. Davide Farnocchia:

    The OSIRIS-REx data give us so much more precise information, we can test the limits of our models and calculate the future trajectory of Bennu to a very high degree of certainty through 2135, we've never modeled an asteroid's trajectory to this precision before.


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