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ASTEROID
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Traducere în limba română
asteroid I. substantiv
1. (astron.) asteroid; planetă mică, planetoid.
2. (zool.) stea de mare (Asteroidea).
asteroid II. adjectiv
în (formă de) stea, stelat, stelar.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Water release may also explain the asteroid's activity.
(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)
For decades, scientists have tried to understand the rate that asteroids hit the Earth by carefully studying impact craters on continents and by using radiometric dating of the rocks around them to determine the ages of the largest, and thus most intact, ones.
(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)
The material returned to Earth from Bennu, however, will almost certainly increase our understanding of asteroids and the ways they are both different and similar, even as the particle-ejection phenomenon continues to be a mystery whose clues we'll also return home with in the form of data and further material for study.
(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)