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    approximately 18 m (60 ft) diameter, 9,100-tonne (10,000-short-ton) near-Earth asteroid that entered the atmosphere at a shallow 18‐degree angle with a speed relative...
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  • Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates...
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    arguments on both sides of any bilateral dispute. The scales can therefore 'tip in favour' of either side, and justice, in terms of the metaphor, can be...
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  • 5331 Erimomisaki (category Background asteroids)
    Hokkaidō, Japan. The asteroid has a longer-than-average rotation period of 24.26 hours. It was named after Cape Erimo at the southern tip of Hokkaidō. Erimomisaki...
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  • in waking consciousness. The craggy rocks to the right represent the tip of Cap de Creus peninsula in north-eastern Catalonia. Many of Dalí's paintings...
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    is from a 1678 volume of Philosophical Transactions. 4055 Magellan, an asteroid discovered in 1985 Magellanic spiral, a type of small galaxy Magellanic...
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  • 2024 in science (category CS1 Austrian German-language sources (de-at))
    Joshua P.; Rivkin, Andrew S.; Takir, Driss; Thomas, Cristina A. (1 February 2024). "Detection of Molecular H2O on Nominally Anhydrous Asteroids". The Planetary...
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    Capítulo IX: Luís de Camões. p. 331. Soutto-Mayor, Maciel (1867). Archivo pittoresco, Volume 10 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Tip. de Castro Irmão. pp. 341–342...
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    space. Meteoroids are distinguished as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide. Objects smaller...
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    Starfish (category Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville)
    referred to as brittle stars or basket stars. Starfish are also known as asteroids due to being in the class Asteroidea. About 1,900 species of starfish...
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    Francisco de Maguna rediscovered the iron mass which he called el Mesón de Fierro ("the Table of Iron"). Maguna believed that the mass was the tip of an iron...
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    flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed. This model, known as the...
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  • Extinction Events in the Evolutionary History of Turtles: One Caused by an Asteroid, the Other by Hominins". The American Naturalist. 203 (6): 644–654. doi:10...
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    (28 May 2023). "UAE Asteroid Mission details". Space.com. Davis, Leonard (4 September 2024). "UAE on track to launch bold 7-asteroid mission in 2028". Space...
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    associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle Asteroid impact prediction Earth-grazing fireball List of asteroid close approaches to Earth Meteoroid "Perseid"...
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  • January–March 2023 in science (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    effects on the brain. 21 March Analysis of samples from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu reveals the presence of uracil, one of the four nucleobases in RNA...
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    capsule for a landing in the Bonneville Salt Flats after its flybys of asteroid 5535 Annefrank in 2002 and comet Wild 2 in 2004. Pontiac Bonneville, a...
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    Fibonacci (redirect from Leonardo de Pisa)
    Pisano period. Beyond mathematics, namesakes of Fibonacci include the asteroid 6765 Fibonacci and the art rock band The Fibonaccis. Liber Abaci (1202)...
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    Landt but it is uncertain", referring to Isla de los Estados, a landmass of the same name at the southern tip of South America, encountered by the Dutch...
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  • the United Galactic Federation, who sentenced 626 to exile on a desert asteroid. The Grand Councilwoman assigns Captain Gantu to escort him. 626 escapes...
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    explain the orbit of Mercury, unless there possibly existed a planet or asteroid belt within the orbit of Mercury. The perihelion of Mercury's orbit exhibited...
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    specula panormitana AB anno 1792 AD annum 1813". Palermo: Tip. Militare. Bibcode:1814psip.book.....P. Google Books id: c40RAAAAYAAJ. (Epsilon Eridani: see...
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    of the Year (1988) Pace car driver for the Indianapolis 500 (2006) An asteroid, 1994 JE9 was named 12373 Lancearmstrong in honor of him. Six-mile Lance...
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  • Janet collects proof of their voyage. In the asteroid belt, while Janet is trying to collect an asteroid as further proof, they lose the Friz and find...
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    boundary: did Eltanin asteroid kickstart the ice ages?". Archived from the original on 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2019-01-18. "Did a Killer Asteroid Drive the Planet...
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    by fans, Star Trek co-stars, scientists, celebrities, and the media. An asteroid was named 4864 Nimoy in his honor. For the Love of Spock (2016) was produced...
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    Jesco von Puttkamer (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Year" award by the German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA (GAHF). Asteroid 266725 Vonputtkamer, discovered by Matthias Busch and Rainer Kresken at...
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  • (25 May 2023). "Cannes film reviews: Anatomy of a Fall, May December, Asteroid City, Perfect Days". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 14...
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  • Programs for Asteroid and Comet Threat IMPS – (observing program) IRAS Minor Planet Survey INAG – (organization) Institut National d'Astronomie et de Geophysique...
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  • Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates...
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