Meanings of wide asteroid in English

During sample collection, the spacecraft approached the 1km- wide asteroid with an instrument called the sampler horn.

Nobody knows which day of the week a six mile- wide asteroid crashed into what would someday be the Yucatan Peninsula.

A 100ft- wide asteroid is heading for a close encounter with Earth on Sunday and could come closer than some orbiting satellites.

A six mile- wide asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, kicking up dense clouds of debris and triggering drastic climatic changes.

Astronomers have calculated the 400 meter- wide asteroid, called '2005 y-u 55', will come within 324,000 kilometres of the planet.

Even today, almost a third of all meteorites falling on Earth originate from the breakup of this 150 kilometre- wide asteroid between Jupiter and Mars.

The most recent ended the Cretaceous period some 66 million years ago when a 10-kilometre- wide asteroid strike wiped out most lifeforms.

NASA has unveiled plans to divert or destroy a 500m wide asteroid calculated to come disturbingly close to Earth in 2135.

A single rocket burn in 2021 would be enough to place this roughly 4-meter- wide asteroid into orbit around a Lagrange point by 2026.

Around 66 million years ago, a 15km- wide asteroid smashed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and is believed to have wiped out almost all the dinosaurs.

Recently, Plesko has been looking at Bennu, a 500-meter- wide asteroid that orbits the Sun every 1.2 years and slides close to Earth every six.