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Asteroid

noun

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

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"Asteroid" Quotes from Famous Books

... up at the dark sky, squinting into the sun. Somewhere out there between Mars and Jupiter was a no-man's-land of danger, a great circling ring of space dirt and debris, the Asteroid belt. And somewhere out there, ...

— Gold in the Sky • Alan Edward Nourse

... tenth or twentieth magnitude. We shall in no case wantonly offend the people of any star, but shall treat all alike with urbanity and kindliness, never conducting ourselves toward an asteroid after a fashion which we could not venture to assume toward Jupiter or Saturn. I repeat that we shall not wantonly offend any star; but at the same time we shall promptly resent any injury that may be done us, or any insolence offered ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

Words linked to "Asteroid" : Pallas, planetoid, asteroidal, Vesta, Chiron, Ceres, angulate, minor planet, angular