Examples of using "Asteroid" in a sentence and their english translations:
A skull shaped asteroid flew by the Earth on Halloween.
An asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia.
What would happen if a large asteroid struck the earth?
Eros is the first asteroid to be landed upon by a spacecraft.
A large asteroid was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
An asteroid passed close to Earth on Saturday.
An asteroid just over two kilometers wide will pass close to earth Wednesday.
I have serious reason to believe that the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as Β 612.
On the fifteenth of February, two thousand and thirteen, an asteroid, at a distance of twenty eight thousand kilometres, with a size the of half a football field, passed our planet.
This asteroid has only once been seen through the telescope. That was by a Turkish astronomer, in 1909.
Most scientists now agree that Chicxulub contains evidence that a huge asteroid or comet crashed into Earth's surface, causing the extinction of more than 70 percent of the living species on the planet, including the dinosaurs.
The asteroid, named ‘Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated—perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That is unlike any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date, and may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed.
Ida was the second asteroid to be observed close-up by a spacecraft, when the Space Probe Galileo took pictures as it flew by on Aug 28, 1993. These pictures showed not only that Ida has a cratered surface, but also that it has a small moon, called Dactyl, which is about 1.6 x 1.2 km in diameter and orbiting 90 km away from the asteroid.