asteroids

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The -- one of them -- And the asteroids is the one I really agree with there.

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  1. noun Astronomy Any of numerous small celestial bodies that revolve around the sun, with orbits lying chiefly between Mars and Jupiter and characteristic diameters between a few and several hundred kilometers. Also called minor planet, planetoid.
  2. noun Zoology See starfish.
  3. adjective Star-shaped.

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  • The -- one of them -- And the asteroids is the one I really agree with there. —  Kary Mullis on what scientists do
  • The asteroids are a substantial amount of real estate, but not very large. —  Freeman Dyson says: let's look for life in the outer solar system
  • To someone contemplating a livable satellite in roughly Lunar orbit, then, getting raw materials from the asteroids is equivalent in energy expenditure to lifting resources from Earth. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • Most of the asteroids are the size of dust flakes. —  AnalogSF,June2003
  • The asteroids were here But why would Dad be writing that down?" —  Gold in the Sky
 

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