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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. Ron Ballouz:

    By the time we fired our thrusters to leave the surface we were still plunging into the asteroid.

  3. 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.

  4. Paul Chodas:

    There is no scientific basis – not one shred of evidence – that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates.

  5. Peter James:

    When we combined that with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered the unexpectedly large amount of mass hundreds of miles underneath the South Pole-Aitken basin, one of the explanations of this extra mass is that the metal from the asteroid that formed this crater is still embedded in the Moons mantle.


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