asteroidal
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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"They're far more common, but also possess much more destructive potential than the more localized, classic crater-forming asteroidal impacts." said Kennett.
From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025
The final images transmitted by the spacecraft’s camera will show a tiny white dot growing into something brighter, bigger and more asteroidal.
From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2022
“For their part, scientists view the many layers of polar ice as a record of past cometary and asteroidal impacts, shedding light on the long history of the Earth-moon system,” Rummel says.
From Scientific American • Jul. 10, 2019
If you happened to be an Afghan, Iraqi, Libyan, Syrian, Somali, or Yemeni in the twenty-first century, can there be any question that life would have seemed asteroidal to you?
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2019
The bigger asteroidal pieces, along with the comets, are mainly responsible for the recent craters on planetary surfaces.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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