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• Asteroid belt — For the album by Velvet Chain, see Asteroid Belt (album). The asteroid belt (shown in white) is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets… …   Wikipedia

• Asteroid deflection strategies — are methods by which near Earth objects could be diverted, preventing potentially catastrophic impact events. A sufficiently large impact would cause massive tsunamis and/or, by placing large quantities of dust into the stratosphere blocking… …   Wikipedia

• Asteroid — For the arcade video game, see Asteroids (video game). For other uses, see Asteroid (disambiguation). A composite image, to scale, of the asteroids that have been imaged at high resolution. As of 2011 they are, from largest to smallest: 4 Vesta,… …   Wikipedia

• asteroid — asteroidal, adj. /as teuh royd /, n. 1. Also called minor planet. Astron. any of the thousands of small bodies of from 480 miles (775 km) to less than one mile (1.6 km) in diameter that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those… …   Universalium

• Asteroid-impact avoidance — Planetary defense redirects here. For defending against alien invasion in fiction, see alien invasion. Artist s impression of a major impact event. The collision between Earth and an asteroid a few kilometres in diameter releases as much energy… …   Wikipedia

• Asteroid — (243) Ida mit Mond Dactyl …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Kuiper belt — Known objects in the Kuiper belt, derived from data from the Minor Planet Center. Obje …   Wikipedia

• Near-Earth asteroid — Near Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose orbits are close to Earth s orbit. All near Earth asteroids spend part of their orbits between 0.983 and 1.3 astronomical units away from the Sun. Some near Earth asteroids orbits intersect Earth s… …   Wikipedia

• Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby — Conceptual artwork of the CRAF spacecraft The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) was a cancelled plan for a NASA led exploratory mission designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s, that planned to… …   Wikipedia

• Vesta mission — Infobox Spacecraft Name = Vesta spacecraft Caption = Organization = IKI Major Contractors = Mission Type = Flyby, penetrator Flyby Of = Mars, Asteroids Orbital Insertion Date = Launch = 1994 Launch Vehicle = Decay = Mission Duration = NSSDC ID =… …   Wikipedia

• Kepler Mission — Infobox Spacecraft Name = Kepler Mission Caption = Conceptual drawing of the Kepler Spacecraft Organization = NASA Major Contractors = Ball Aerospace Mission Type = Space observatory Satellite Of = Sun Launch = No earlier than April 10, 2009… …   Wikipedia