ASTEROID in a Sentence

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1. With Vista at opposition, the asteroid is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASTEROID
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asteroid
 n.  small planet; one of many large rocks that circle the sun
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1  With Vista at opposition, the asteroid is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit.
2  In recent years, scientists have been more concerned with the earth colliding with comets and asteroids and comet Swift-Tuttle is big, about the same size as the asteroid that wiped out dinosaur sixty-five million years ago.