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...ormed on Earth's Moon, on [[Mars (planet)]] and [[Venus]], and even on the asteroid [[Vesta]].

The asteroid [[2190 Coubertin]], discovered on April 2, 1976 by N. S. Chernykh at the [[

...e|Meteorcrater.jpg|right|350px|Between 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, a small asteroid about 80 feet in diameter impacted the Earth and formed the 1.2 km diameter ...rash'''''. - Spaceguard Survey<ref name=LONEOS>[http://asteroid.lowell.edu/asteroid/loneos/loneos.html Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Search]</ref>

The [[asteroid]] [[94 Aurora]] was named after her.

...by [[Wallaston]], Palladium is named after [[2 Pallas|Pallas]], the second asteroid, discovered at around the same time, itself named after the [[Greek mytholo

...roidBedout>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3707023.stm Boost to asteroid wipe-out theory] Paul Rincon ..., and wide-spread volcanic eruptions triggered by the impact of a comet or asteroid. The extinction marking the Permian-Triassic transition destroyed an estima

Ceres, which lies in the [[asteroid belt]] between Mars and Jupiter, was discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giusep ...of about 960 km and has a mass that totals approximately one third of the asteroid belt’s total.<ref name=NASAPlanet?/>

...xtinction of the dinosaurs, and indeed many other forms of life, is the '[[asteroid]] theory' - i.e. a large object from [[outer space]] crashed onto the dinos

...817. The astronomical community named a [[Moon|lunar]] [[crater]] and an [[asteroid]] after him.

Hubble discovered the asteroid 1373 Cincinnati on August 30, 1939.

*Canceled planetary-asteroid missions *Proposed planetary-asteroid missions

...for assigning designations to celestial bodies ([[star]]s, [[planet]]s, [[asteroid]]s, etc.) and any surface features on them, and is a member of the [[Intern

Today, many researchers believe that they have found evidence of an [[asteroid]] or comet impact in what is now the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. That woul

* [[Shoemaker]] - aka NEAR - Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous

...(AKA-25)''' was an ''Artemis'' class [[attack cargo ship]] named after the asteroid ''[[34 Circe]],'' which in turn was named after ''[[Circe]],'' a goddess or

* An [[asteroid]] is named in his honor, "[[9766 Bradbury]]," along with a crater on the mo

...(AKA-27)''' was an ''Artemis'' class [[attack cargo ship]] named after the asteroid ''[[337 Devosa]].'' The origin of the name is not known. USS ''Devosa'' ser

...(AKA-21)''' was an ''Artemis'' class [[attack cargo ship]] named after the asteroid ''[[105 Artemis]],'' which in turn was named after the Greek goddess ''[[Ar