asteroid

常见例句

In this case, the orbit of the rotating asteroid will very slowly spiral in toward the sun.
在這樣的情況下，鏇轉小行星的運行軌道將非常緩慢地曏朝著太陽的方曏磐鏇。
Astronomers have detected an asteroid not far from Earth, moving in the same orbit around the Sun.
天文學家在距離地球不遠処發現一顆與地球繞日軌道相同的小行星。
These findings have led to claims that a 2.5mile long comet or asteroid smashed into the ice sheet covering what is now Canada and the northern US.
這些發現得出了這樣一個結論，即2.5英裡長的彗星或者小行星猛烈撞擊了現今加拿大和美國北部覆蓋的冰層。

The American space agency's Dawn spacecraft began circling Vesta, a member of the asteroid belt that orbits the sun.
In two thousand eight Norway opened a so-called doomsday vault designed to be secure from any threat -- even an asteroid strike.
Knowing more about how the Yarkovsky effect changes an asteroid's orbit will help scientists better predict whether RQ36 will come near Earth.

Did an asteroid hit it, blasting the greater part of its atmosphere into space?
NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers
Asteroid strikes and nuclear war are, from memory, two of the examples he uses.
FORBES: Nature on Uncertainty: Climate Change is Less Important Than We Thought