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Definition of Asteroids
1. asteroid [n] - See also: asteroid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asteroids
Literary usage of Asteroids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1904)
"Smaller asteroids than these undoubtedly exist, but are so excessively faint as to
... Of all the planets of the Sun's system these asteroids offer the ..."
2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1861)
"On the Secular Variations and Mutual Relations of the Orbits of the Asteroids.
By Simon Newcomb. (Memoirs of the American Academy, New Series, tv pp. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1855)
"Mr. Greg then referred to a recent number of the ' Comptes Rendus,' in which
there is a paper by Le Verrier on the asteroids. M. Le Verrier shows by ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"The recently discovered asteroids had the position of their orbits ... THE Asteroids.
The following paper has been communicated by Daniel Vaughan, Esq., ..."
5. Elements of Astronomy: Accompanied with Numerous Illustrations, a Colored by Joseph Norman Lockyer (1873)
"Size of the Asteroids.—None of these planets, except occasionally Ceres and Vesta,
... The orbits of the asteroids thus far discovered, for the most part, ..."
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