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A relatively small rocky or metallic body orbiting the sun, distinct from a planet or an active comet.
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- asteroid belt
- asteroid mining
- near-Earth asteroid
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The miners anchored their drill to the asteroid’s uneven surface.
The chart showed widely separated asteroids along the route.
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- Base
- asteroid
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular: asteroid; plural: asteroids. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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