Synonyms for asteroid
ˈæs təˌrɔɪdas·ter·oid

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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

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1. asteroidnoun

   Synonyms:
   small planet

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1. List of paraphrases for "asteroid":

   asteroids, meteor

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1. ASTEROID

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

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1. Glenn Kelman:

   What I feel almost protective about, in this really sad elegiac way, is the Multiple Listing Services, scientists believe that the dinosaurs were living a very marginal existence when the asteroid hit. I think the ecosystem in real estate is already just extremely vulnerable.

2. Dave Barry:

   What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

3. 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.

4. Ben Reed:

   Humans and robots are working together on a client that's in space, that accesses robotics and advanced tools ... So the fundamentals of this (asteroid) mission are no different.

5. 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.