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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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ASTEROID
asteroid
 a.  shaped like a star
 n.  any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)
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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.