Sentence examples for asteroid discovery from inspiring English sources

In the three minutes and nine seconds of Scott Manley's YouTube video, each asteroid discovery over the past 30 years emerges as a bright shock of color on a mostly black background, a map of the earth's circulation in our solar system.

It was his 45th asteroid discovery.

This is a fictional account of what might have happened February 15 , 2013 if we had been a decade further along in our efforts toward asteroid discovery and planetary defense.

This identification system is similar to that now used for asteroid discoveries, though the asteroids are so designated only when they are first discovered.

For a discussion of the roles that Bode's law played in early asteroid discoveries and the search for planets in the outer solar system, see the articles asteroid and Neptune.

While the MPC has the authority to designate asteroid discoveries and assign them a number, it is the Committee for Small Body Nomenclature, also at the International Astronomical Union, that approves their names.

It was the first of his nine asteroid discoveries.

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's Asteroid Watch project scientists work to share the latest asteroid discoveries and potential threats with the public.

Lu, along with fellow ex-astronauts Tom Jones and Bill Anders, has been attempting to develop a better asteroid early-warning system, the Sentinel Infrared Space Telescope, which they hope will become "the principal means by which nearly all asteroid discoveries will be made".

**This body was classified as an asteroid on discovery, but it is now suspected to be a burned-out comet.

University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers helped rule out the asteroid's threat, Discovery reports, working with NASA's Pasadena office to analyze its trajectory.