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  • noun Plural form of astroid.

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  • In other words, there is no specific asteroid that is likely to do it soon, but given the history of astroids hitting our and other planets there is a real non-zero risk that it would happen again.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » AsteroidGate 2009

  • I am glad that I got her look in her new high tech school to learn how to save the human race from astroids - actual anime series.

    My day: Ninja Squirrel, Dim Bulb and I want to be a Cat Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Also for this reason Earth is not constantly pummelled by the thousands of near Earth astroids that can come very close to Earth.

    A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

  • Long thought to be a closed system, we now know that Earth has been slammed in the past, by astroids and comets, wreaking global, climactic and biological catastrophe.

    Remarks By President And The First Lady At Millennium Event ITY National Archives 2000

  • With early warning of a few years to several decades, astroids "smaller than a few hundred metres in diameter" could involve sending a weighted robotic spacecraft that would collide with the asteroid and nudge it to the point that it would no longer be heading to Earth.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • "Unlike the dinosaurs, we have the means to prevent catastrophic impacts," says the B612 Foundation, which also advocates finding and tracking asteroids to learn about potential threats to the Earth decades in advance, and testing technology to deflect astroids.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • End of Dayers regardless whether they think an astroids going to hit us, the cruste shifts, or God decides to destroy his creation in a rash moment of indignation (A Temper tantrum).

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • End of Dayers regardless whether they think an astroids going to hit us, the cruste shifts, or God decides to destroy his creation in a rash moment of indignation (A Temper tantrum).

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • End of Dayers regardless whether they think an astroids going to hit us, the cruste shifts, or God decides to destroy his creation in a rash moment of indignation (A Temper tantrum).

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • End of Dayers regardless whether they think an astroids going to hit us, the cruste shifts, or God decides to destroy his creation in a rash moment of indignation (A Temper tantrum).

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

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