Asteroid (plural form: Asteroids) may refer to:

• Asteroid, the astronomical object; this is the primary definition. Specific variants include the following:
  • Amor asteroid
  • Apollo asteroid
  • Apohele asteroid
  • Arjuna asteroid
  • Aten asteroid
  • Binary asteroid
  • Maria asteroids
  • Trojan asteroid

253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. ... The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. ... The Apollo asteroid 25143 Itokawa. ... Apohele asteroids are a subclass of Aten asteroids. ... The Arjuna asteroids are a class of near-Earth asteroids whose orbits are very Earth-like in character, having low inclination, orbital periods close to one Earth year, and low eccentricity. ... The Aten asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids, named after the first of the group to be discovered (2062 Aten, discovered January 7, 1976 by Eleanor F. Helin). ... The term binary asteroid refers to a system in which two asteroids orbit their common centre of gravity, in analogy with binary stars. ... The Maria asteroids are a group of asteroids that orbit the sun with a between about 2. ... Image of the Trojan asteroids in front of and behind Jupiter along its orbital path. ...

Media

• Asteroid (film), 1997 TV movie about the American Government trying to stop an asteroid colliding with the Earth
• Asteroid Belt (album), Velvet Chain's 5th album, released in November 2003 under the Freak Records label
• Asteroid (Pearl & Dean), a piece of music played in cinemas in the UK, before and after the Advertising section before the feature film, owned by Advertising firm Pearl & Dean
• Asteroids (arcade game), a popular vector-based video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari
  • Asteroids Deluxe, the sequel to Asteroids the arcade game, produced in 1980 by Atari
  • Asteroids Hyper 64, an update to the 1979 arcade shooter Asteroids released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999

Asteroid (1997) is a TV Movie about the American Government trying to stop an asteroid colliding with the Earth. ... Asteroid Belt is Velvet Chains 5th Album. ... Pearl & Dean is a British cinema advertising company. ... Asteroids is a popular vector-based video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari. ... Asteroids Deluxe, the sequel to Asteroids, is an arcade game. ... Asteroids Hyper 64 is an update to the 1979 arcade shooter Asteroids released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999. ...

See also

• Asteroid belt
• Asteroid moon
• Asteroid deflection strategies
• Astroid, a particular type of mathematical curve: a hypocycloid with four cusps
• Starfish, belong to a class of invertebrate animals known as Asteroidea

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