Examples of asteroid in the following topics:
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- Hypotheses of climate change, asteroid impact, and volcanic eruptions have been argued.
- The cause of this extinction is now understood to be the result of a cataclysmic impact of a large meteorite or asteroid off the coast of what is now the Yucatán Peninsula.
- The researchers who discovered the iridium spike interpreted it as a rapid influx of iridium from space to the atmosphere (in the form of a large asteroid), rather than a slowing in the deposition of sediments during that period.
- These researchers hypothesized that this iridium spike was caused by an asteroid impact that resulted in the K–Pg mass extinction.
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- Natural satellites, often called moons (see ), are celestial bodies that orbit a larger body call a primary (often planet, though there are binary asteroids, too).
- There are 76 objects in the asteroid belt with satellites (five with two satellites each), four Jupiter trojans, 39 near-Earth objects, and 14 Mars-crossers.
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- Stars are hotter than planets, for example, which are warmer than icy asteroids, which are warmer still than the vacuum of the space between them.
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- Minor bodies such as comets an asteroids (discovered after Kepler's time) can have very large eccentricities.
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- The Moon's orbit about Earth, the orbits of planets, asteroids, meteors, and comets about the Sun are other examples of gravitational orbits.
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- This process occurs, for example, in many asteroid echinoderms through splitting of the central disk.